Latest News From Sugar Beets

Sugar demand is dropping for the first time in four decades. John Phipps explains why, and talks about the implications, in John's World.

The Kleber Cropker is a narrow tire built for small/medium capacity equipment, self-propelled sprayers, towed equipment and tractors.

Welcome to direct marketing on steroids. Chris Adams, 30, is transforming his farming operation with an export business built on trust and boots-on-the-ground trade missions.

Broader trade talks have moved slowly amid political spats.

Sugar-beet crop to fall 3.6% in 2016-17: Agriculture Ministry.

Donald Trump called NAFTA "the worst trade deal ever signed." How does is it in terms of agriculture?

Heavy rainfall and chilly temperatures in France are delaying the development of sugar beets in the European Union’s largest producer.

Monsanto Co. and German plant breeding company KWS Saat want to create a genetically engineered beet that would allow growers to better control weeds.

Big Sugar and Big Corn face off in court this week in a bitter, multibillion-dollar battle of sweeteners that boils down to a mix of science, semantics and marketing.  

The sugarbeet harvest in south-central Montana and north-central Wyoming is nearly complete.  

A U.S. International Trade Commission ruling that Mexico dumped heavily subsidized sugar in U.S. markets is good news for sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley, according to the state's congressional delegation and farmer groups in the state.

The monsoon season in India, accounts for more than 70 percent of the annual rain. This year it is expected to be normal and 102% of the 50-year June-September average of 35 inches. This promises good crops of rice, sugar and cotton.

Weather losses were severe, but Montana also produced a lot of grain.

North Dakota couple wins the Farm Journal VIP trip to Louisiana’s sugarcane country

A man who was severely burned while working at an American Crystal Sugar plant last year has filed a lawsuit that accuses the company of negligence.

Authorities in Michigan's Thumb say that a 52-year-old truck driver was killed in an accident while waiting to pick up a load of sugar beets.

U.S. Representative Collin Peterson is banking his re-election on the sugar beet.

U.S. sugar production has trailed total use every season for more than five decades.

But GMO opponents promise additional court action

Genetically modified sugar beets on hold; update your health care directive; Large farms better suited for cob collection; new products for crop insurance