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5-16-08
WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed the Farm Bill by a vote of 318 to 106—well above the two-thirds majority necessary to override a potential veto by President George Bush—a... Click for details»
5-16-08
BAY CITY -- A grower-owned sugar processing cooperative will pay a $210,000 civil penalty and upgrade its clean-air technology to resolve pollution violations, the federal government said Thursday.
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5-15-08
WASHINGTON - By a strong, veto-proof majority, the House passed a $290 billion Farm Bill with increased subsidies for farmers and food stamps for the poor amid rising grocery prices while sprinkling i... Click for details»
5-12-08
In 2006, iconic Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers football team, was converted to a temporary hockey rink.
The technology used at Lambeau now protects American Crystal Sugar beet piles f... Click for details»
5-12-08
The Moorhead Rod & Gun Club has been around since 1896.
But it may soon go the way of the flintlock and blunderbuss, all because some trees were cut down following the 1997 flood, according to Shaw... Click for details»
5-12-08
Cold temperatures have delayed planting and slowed crop growth across much of Idaho this spring.
Temperatures in Boise during April averaged 4 degrees below normal, according to the National Weathe... Click for details»
5-12-08
Sick crops? Who ya gonna call? UNL Plant Pathology has website, lab
Nebraska
Internet-savvy consumers have been getting health and medical advice from the World Wide Web for years. But how many f... Click for details»
5-12-08
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) - Bad, ill-timed weather has taken a toll on the fledgling sugar beet crop on the Nebraska-Wyoming border.
Officials say a late April freeze destroyed plantings on 890 acres ... Click for details»
5-12-08
Morgan County’s sugar beets are now in the ground, and farmers could use a little heat and moisture to get their crops started.
According to Morgan County Extension Agent Marlin Eisenach, beet plan... Click for details»
5-8-08
WASHINGTON - Negotiators of a five-year, $300 billion farm bill said they have reached a tentative agreement on the legislation and it will be considered by the House and Senate next week.
But the ... Click for details»
5-7-08
WASHINGTON—At a time when the nation’s newspapers are filled with stories of climbing commodity prices, the U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday published data showing sugar has been the exception... Click for details»
5-5-08
PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. -- Not long after George Sexton was hired in 1984 at the big sugar refinery on the Savannah River here, he was shown a video warning that the dust thrown off by sugar processing co... Click for details»
5-5-08
Moorhead, Minn. — In a typical year, most of the 400,000 acres of sugar beets would already be sprouting. This year much of the crop has yet to be planted.
American Crystal Sugar Company President... Click for details»
5-1-08
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) - A late-season freeze has forced Nebraska Panhandle sugar beet growers to replant about 1,000 acres.
Western Sugar Area Manager Jerry Darnell says the replanting is being do... Click for details»
4-29-08
You've heard, no doubt, of the Batmobile, but here's something new from the scientists of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS): the Beetmobile!
Alright, you caught me; as Hercule Poirot sometime... Click for details»
4-29-08
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) Poor weather has delayed the planting of sugar beets in the Red River Valley.
The Agriculture Department says planting on the Minnesota side of the river stands at just five pe... Click for details»
4-28-08
The 2008 sugar beet crop in southwestern Ontario is more than 90 per cent in the ground and sprouting.
"We're off to an excellent start,'' Dover Centre-area farmer Brian Fox said Friday. "In fact,... Click for details»
4-25-08
ONTARIO — The cold can kill.
No one knows that better than area farmers, and the general consensus among many local agriculturists is the unusually cold spring has clipped the growth of some crops... Click for details»
4-24-08
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - American Crystal Sugar Company says it's gotten an early start treating the source of sugar beet odor that's a part of life for Grand Forks area residents in the summer.
Bacteri... Click for details»
4-18-08
Sugar beet pulp may help cut the costs of making biodegradable plastic, Agricultural Research Service studies suggest.
The pulp is a fiber-rich byproduct of sucrose extraction procedures used by s... Click for details»
4-16-08
Andrew Llewelyn-Jones, agricultural superintendent for Rogers Sugar, said Monday between 19,000 and 20,000 acres of beets will be planted. The contracting process is not finished.
Last year, growers ... Click for details»
4-14-08
Ethanol plants across the country may soon sprinkle sugar on their mostly corn diets, thanks to free trade and Mexico.
It's one of the finer points buried deep in the sprawling farm bill legislati... Click for details»
4-14-08
the factory, killing 13 and injuring dozens in one of Georgia's worst industrial accidents, Imperial Sugar's business had soured.
Sales for the maker of Dixie Crystals dipped 8 percent the last fis... Click for details»
4-7-08
Idaho sugar beet plantings are expected to drop by 15 percent this year to the lowest level since 1982, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture planting intentions report released early this w... Click for details»
4-1-08
That means tighter supplies and higher prices for everything from corn flakes to ham hocks.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual plantings report, an estimate of the coming year's crop base... Click for details»
3-31-08
The first official look at what farmers are planning to plant in the 2008 crop season ended up being fairly close to what the industry predictions have been for the past few weeks n fewer corn acres a... Click for details»
3-28-08
Fargo, N.D. (AP) American Crystal Sugar growers could cut their sugar beet acreage 15 percent or more this year.
American Crystal President David Berg said the cooperative's board of directors this... Click for details»
3-28-08
TWIN FALLS, Idaho - While the debate whirs over the planting of Roundup Ready beets and the use of sugar from the genetically modified plants, weed researcher Don Morishita is more interested in the p... Click for details»
3-19-08
RENVILLE — After taking its case to the courts and state Legislature, the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative is about to bring it to the public too.
The sugar cooperative charges that its pr... Click for details»
3-17-08
Area sugar beet growers agreed to a new contract with Sidney Sugars during the annual Mon-Dak Beet Growers Association meeting held Wednesday afternoon.
Terry Cayko, president of the association, s... Click for details»