Sugar beet farming in Finland may be threatened by new EU...

Nordic Business Report;  July 23, 2003 ;     141 words ......REPORT-23 July 2003-Sugar beet farming in Finland may be threatened...guidelines on the farming of sugar beet in the EU could mean the end of sugar beet farming in Finland. Matti Hannula...according to Hannula. Sugar beet is cultivated in the...

SUGAR BEET FARMING ESSENTIAL TO KHORASAN'S AGRICULTURE SECTOR

Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  February 24, 2005 ;     76 words ...According to "Tehran Times", Khorasan's agriculture sector is largely dependent on sugar beet farming, so provincial officials should reform management systems in order to keep the industry going. Sugar beet is one of the few crops that can resist drought and severe weather conditions. 500 ...

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...

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...

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 ;     700+ 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...

Syngenta develops tropical sugar beet

International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials : INFORM;  October 1, 2007 ;     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...

Friendly Fungus Could Help Sugar Beet Fields Go "Green".

M2 Presswire;  September 19, 2006 ;     404 words ......2006-US ARS: Friendly Fungus Could Help Sugar Beet Fields Go Green (C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...alternative to the copious pesticides that sugar beet growers must spray on fields to fend off their biggest enemy: the sugar beet root maggot. Stefan Jaronski, an...

Sugar beet filler.(ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES)

Advanced Composites Bulletin;  June 1, 2008 ;     281 words ......Research Service (ARS) say that sugar beet pulp may help cut the costs of making...friendly filler. The pulp gained from sugar beet is a fibre-rich by-product of sucrose extraction procedures used by sugar beet processors. Most of the 36.29 Mt...

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...as a filler. The pulp gained from sugar beet is a fibre-rich by-product of sucrose extraction procedures used by sugar beet processors. Most of the 36.29 Mt...

Spanish sugar beet production to fall 8% in 2005/06.(Markets)(Brief...

Agra Europe;  November 25, 2005 ;     171 words ...Production of sugar beet in Spain in the 2005/06 season is likely...2005/06 season, the area planted to sugar beet in southern Spain fell to 36 400 hectares...season. Initial forecasts for winter sugar beet in northern and central Spain put the...

Set-aside -- Extension of lifting deadline for sugar beet growers.

M2 Presswire;  January 14, 2002 ;     299 words ......Extension of lifting deadline for sugar beet growers (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...the 15 January deadline, by which all sugar beet should normally have been harvested from...be entered into set-aside this year. Sugar beet and forage beet growers now have until...