MOORHEAD, Minn. - Kirk Watt is preparing his field of sugar beets for harvest just east of here. He didn't plant the genetically modified Roundup Ready beets this year, but wishes he had. "We had ...

Kirk Watt is preparing his field of sugar beets for harvest just east of Moorhead. He didn't plant the genetically modified Roundup Ready beets this year, but wishes he had. "We had nonRoundup here ...

A California judge said this week that the latest round of "Roundup Ready" sugar beet seeds likely shouldn't have been planted, the newest development in an ongoing legal battle over the use of ...

The annual sugar beet harvest is in full swing. Half of the sugar produced in the U.S. comes from beets, and about a quarter of the nation’s beets are grown in the West. A decade ago, Monsanto Company ...

NAMPA-- Sugar beet growers and processors are worried they might not have a crop next year. It all started in 2008, when a number of groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Agriculture's ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Genetically modified sugar beets from two fields in Southern Oregon’s Jackson County were destroyed this month in what the FBI called “economic sabotage.” The agency said in a ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Federal agriculture officials have released a plan to let farmers plant genetically modified sugar beets while a lawsuit over them is resolved, but farmers fear a partial ...

The biotech fairy must be whispering a whole lot of sweet nothings (made with genetically-modified sugar) into U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s ear. Or something. In late January ...

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) — Unable to find a good solution to protecting their certified organic seed crops from potential contamination from genetically engineered crops, small organic farmers in this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chuck Burr explains his organic seed growing techniques May 12, 2014, on his farm outside Ashland, Ore. Organic farmers are asking ...