Sugar beet filler could cut cost of bioplastics.(ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES)

High Performance Plastics;  June 1, 2008 ;     280 words ......Research Service (ARS) suggests that sugar beet pulp may help cut the costs of making...36.29 Mt (40 million tons) of sugar beet pulp that is generated in the USA...in relation to the amount of sugar beet pulp or plasticizer that was added...

Scientists Turn Cheap Beet Pulp into Value-Added Plastics Ingredient.

M2 Presswire;  March 12, 2008 ;     410 words ......COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12032008 Sugar beet pulp may help cut the costs of making...of the 40 million tons of U.S. sugar beet pulp generated each year is used as...collaborated on a project to convert sugar beet pulp into a specialized filler material...

SCIENTISTS TURN CHEAP BEET PULP INTO VALUE-ADDED PLASTICS INGREDIENT

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 12, 2008 ;     347 words ......the following press release: Sugar beet pulp may help cut the costs of making...of the 40 million tons of U.S. sugar beet pulp generated each year is used as...collaborated on a project to convert sugar beet pulp into a specialized filler material...

Sugar beet a green option.(Farming Life)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  July 27, 2002 ;     271 words ...Byline: DAVID McCOY SUGAR beet is becoming increasingly environmentally-friendly...has been a large decline in the use of chemicals on sugar beet. National Farmers' Union Sugar Beet Committee chairman, Mike Blacker, said: Sugar beet...

Southern Spanish sugar beet output up 2.9% in 2006.(Markets)(sugar and...

Agra Europe;  September 15, 2006 ;     259 words ...Sugar beet production in southern Spain reached 2...information published this month by a sugar beet growers' federation in southern Spain...Grupos Remolacheros del Sur de Espana). Sugar beet production in Seville reached 1.079mt...

Atlantic Biomass could put jet fuel made from beet pulp on market in two...

Frederick News-Post (Frederick, MD);  April 29, 2007 ;     787 words ......and other bioproducts from sugar beet pulp, a byproduct of the sugar-making process. One immediate...convert plant matter, such as beet pulp and grass crops, into...production system working on sugar beet pulp, we will begin adapting it...

New breed of beet geneticists unraveling sugar beet genome.

M2 Presswire;  April 1, 2004 ;     425 words ......breed of beet geneticists unraveling sugar beet genome(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...is leading a genetic revolution in the sugar beet industry, with funding from the Beet...years have begun a project to map the sugar beet genome. The ARS group is one of just...

SUGAR BEET PRODUCTION SURGES

Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  February 19, 2007 ;     162 words ...According to "Tehran Times", production of sugar beet has increased by around 1,600,000 tons...Jihad said. About 6.5 million tons of sugar beet was produced from a total of 178,000...March 20, 2007). The lands allocated to sugar beet cultivation in the country have been...

Grand Forks County, N.D., Commission Approves Dumping Beet Pulp, Tailings.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 21, 2001 ;     584 words ......for Tom Brule to dump sugar beet pulp and tailings on land...allows Brule to apply sugar beet tailings and pulp...and Zoning A. Sugar Beet Pulp & Tailings discussion...regarding the dumping of sugar beet processing byproducts...

Celebrating the sugar beet in Mead.

Greeley Tribune (Greeley, CO);  October 3, 2006 ;     324 words ......Bill Jackson Oct. 3--MEAD -- The lowly sugar beet is being celebrated in a big way in southwestern...the directors of the Mead chamber. The sugar beet made this area what it is today. From...canals are employed and were created for sugar beet production. In this year of water ...

Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics;  April 1, 2006 ;   Boland, Michael; Marsh, Thomas L;   787 words ......examines seven vertically integrated sugar beet plants representing three different companies...sugar beets for vertically integrated sugar beet processors as a way of determining the...account for quality differences in the sugar beet input that are used to manufacture the...

JIAMUSI PROMOTES SUGAR BEET FARMING

AsiaInfo Services;  April 13, 2004 ;     200 words ...AsiaInfo Services 04-13-2004 Jiamusi Promotes Sugar Beet Farming JIAMUSI, Apr 13, 2004 (SinoCast via COMTEX...Heilongjiang Province announced the promotion of sugar beet farming. The sugar beet farmland had been cumulatively 4,170.27 hectares...

Syngenta develops tropical sugar beet

International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials : INFORM;  October 1, 2007 ;   Anonymous;   245 words ......Basel, Switzerland) has introduced sugar beet in India for cultivation in tropical climatic conditions. Tropical sugar beet brings significant agronomic, environmental...conversion to bioethanol. The new sugar beet can be grown in relatively dry areas...

Spanish Inventors Develop Sugar Beet Genes

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 23, 2008 ;     322 words ......from Valencia, Spain, have developed sugar beet genes and proteins. According to the...genes originating from Beta vulgaris, sugar beet, that are involved in responses to stress...situations. The genes were isolated from a sugar beet complementary deoxyribonucleic acid library...

Soured Prospects Sugar beet growers, facing fewer processors and low...

The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA);  April 2, 2000 ;   Rodriguez, Robert;   787 words ......has witnessed California's once mighty sugar beet industry brought to its knees, smacked...losing another crop. Statewide, planted sugar beet acreage has dwindled from 206,186 in...Despite shrinking acreage, California's sugar beet farmers generated $117 million in revenue...