People love the taste of sugar beets' primary byproduct: white sugar. Soilborne cyst nematodes—parasitic, microscopic ...

Beet cyst nematode is an increasing threat to British sugar beet crops and growers are urged to ramp up soil testing efforts ...

One such sugar source is sugar beet. However, determining which is healthier—or if neither is—requires understanding their differences. Though chemically identical, cane sugar and beet sugar ...

In Margie Sarsfield's "Beta Vulgaris," a woman who works on a Minnesota beet farm gradually loses touch with reality.

An insect-control expert has highlighted the urgent need for research and development of sustainable crop protection methods ...

An emergency application for the use of a neonicotinoid pesticide on sugar beet in England has been denied by the UK government, in another crushing blow ...

The Government has refused to allow the emergency use of a banned pesticide on sugar beet to protect bees and other pollinators. The application to use the pesticide had been made by British Sugar and ...

Sugar beet growers have been warned that farm hygiene is "critical" to protect their crops after Defra refused an emergency bid to use a neonicotinoid pesticide.

Sugar beet growers have hit out at a government ban on a pesticide used on sugar beet crops as "another blow" to the industry. The government has turned down British Sugar's emergency application ...

This week, the Government refused an emergency application for the use of the neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser SB on sugar beet – a crop which has been beset with virus yellows, a disease ...

Sugar beet growers have been warned that farm hygiene is "critical" to protect their crops after Defra refused an emergency bid to use ...