FARGO, N.D. -- As February slips toward March, sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley still face "massive uncertainty" about whether they'll be planting Roundup Ready sugar beets in 2011. The ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)-- Environmental groups failed to show that seed plants for sugar beets genetically modified to withstand the popular weed killer Roundup would cause irreparable harm, a federal ...
The sugar beet is a biennial crop which develops a sugar-rich tap root in the first year (the vegetative stage) and a flowering seed stalk in the second year (the reproductive stage). Early in its ...
This time the federal judge in California really means it. The stecklings must be destroyed. In his Nov. 30 decision last week, District Judge Jeffrey S. White ordered that the genetically modified ...
A USDA spokesman said Thursday that the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service had yet to begin formulating restrictions by which Roundup Ready sugar beets can be cultivated in the next ...
The court of appeals vacated and reversed an order of the district court and remanded. The court held that environmental groups failed to show a likelihood of irreparable injury sufficient to justify ...