Decline in Grain Plantings Adds to Problems in Northern Plains Sugar...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 12, 2002 ;     559 words ......fungi cause root rot in sugar beets there are some important...sugar beet fields in North Dakota and Minnesota are infested...agriculture in northern North Dakota and Minnesota is compounding...you are setting your sugar beets up for problems, Khan...disease by ...

Wind, Cold Take Toll on North Dakota Crops.

Agweek (Grand Forks, ND);  May 25, 2004 ;     366 words ......Valley farmers replanting sugar beets after a mid-May frost. The North Dakota Agricultural Statistics...damaged canola, flax, corn, sugar beets, alfalfa and soybeans that...22 percent of the state's sugar beets had emerged by the time...including about 1,000 acres of ...

Carrots a Growing Trend in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 25, 1996 ;     664 words ......Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota, but...Schreiner, who grows sugar beets, wheat and edible beans...said Rudy Radke, a North Dakota Extension agent specializing...several months than sugar beets or potatoes. Storage...

Land Values in North Dakota Hold Steady, Decrease Slightly.(Knight...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 12, 2001 ;     509 words ......survey by the North Dakota Chapter of the...lower returns on sugar beets, said Paul Thorp...few areas of North Dakota outside of the...higher rents for sugar beets drop off, but...Ransom,10 percent. North Dakota counties with...

Farmers optimistic as sugar beets are pulled

The Billings Gazette;  October 11, 2008 ;     477 words ...The gamble on genetically modified sugar beets appears to be paying off for farmers...crop was out of the ground, but the sugar beets, genetically engineered to resist sprayings...of the biggest challenges to growing sugar beets. Roundup, with its "lulls down to the...

Landrigan true to his North Dakota roots.(The Orange County Register)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ...LOS ANGELES _ The North Dakota Fighting Sioux are hot...end zone. He goes back to North Dakota every summer, back to the...the other raised corn and sugar beets - to get a refresher course...and was transferred from North Dakota to Austin, Minn. when Charlie...important ...

A sweet solution: rental chillers help save one million dollars' worth of...

Engineered Systems;  June 1, 2008 ;     565 words ......millions of dollars of sugar beets at risk. So American...grows and processes sugar beets in the Red River...Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. The company is...Typically, the sugar beets are harvested each...of the harvested sugar beets. The piles ...

SUGAR BEETS RULE RED RIVER VALLEY.(BUSINESS)(CROSS COUNTY)(Column)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  November 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Wisconsin raised sugar beets to be processed...long since replaced sugar beets in Wisconsin, sugar...River Valley of the North that separates Minnesota and North Dakota. Many folks perceive...500,000 acres of sugar beets. It's the largest...Hillsboro and ...

New sugar beets fend off worm attackers.

M2 Presswire;  August 18, 2000 ;     400 words ...M2 PRESSWIRE-18 August 2000-ARS: New sugar beets fend off worm attackers (C)1994-2000 M2...new breeding line of nematode-resistant sugar beets from Agricultural Research Service plant...more, the gene or genes that help these new sugar beets thwart the microscopic, soil-dwelling ...

North Dakota Takes Step Forward in Personal Financial Literacy for Its...

Targeted News Service;  April 23, 2007 ;     676 words ...The North Dakota Republican Party issued the following...them with smart investing. Imagine North Dakota's aging population feeling secure...conference today in Memorial Hall at the North Dakota State Capitol building in Bismarck...

North Dakota Growers Assess Vegetable Crops.

Agweek (Grand Forks, North Dakota) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  July 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ......D.--Fields of onions growing in North Dakota this summer are yielding more than...N.D.-based specialist with the North Dakota State University Extension Service...Commercial Vegetable Growers of North Dakota. Radke says the CVG's long-term...100 an acre, about the same as for ...

Rhizomania resistance helps keep sugar beets safe.

M2 Presswire;  February 6, 2007 ;     363 words ......ARS: Rhizomania resistance helps keep sugar beets safe(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...quickly turn from sweet to sour for sugar beets when a killer disease called rhizomania...geneticists and others had bred into sugar beets had protected the beets against the...

RHIZOMANIA RESISTANCE HELPS KEEP SUGAR BEETS SAFE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 6, 2007 ;     321 words ......quickly turn from sweet to sour for sugar beets when a killer disease called rhizomania...geneticists and others had bred into sugar beets had protected the beets against the...They now have developed new-generation sugar beets that may hold their own against the...

Smooth roots mean smoother processing for U.S. sugar beets.

M2 Presswire;  September 23, 2003 ;     388 words ......roots mean smoother processing for U.S. sugar beets(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...two new breeding lines of smooth-root sugar beets for industry to use to develop commercial...ARS researchers a high-sucrose line of sugar beets to help bring the sucrose level of ...

SUGAR BEETS SWEETEN THE FARM ECONOMY.(BUSINESS)(CROSS COUNTY)(Column)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  September 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......and get the crops in. We're talking sugar beets here and we're in western Minnesota...interspersed with lush green acres of sugar beets. We are Rodney Bryn, general manager...Midwesterners know nothing about -- namely sugar beets. It's a fascinating crop to most of...