Are sugar beets the new acai? Starring in two hot novels in the past six months suggests that the Minnesota vegetable is on a hot streak. Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent ...

Biostimulant trials in the UK have found there are consistent benefits to using biostimulants on potato, sugar beet, and maize crops – particularly those under stress. Split field trials on ...

Oct-25 raw sugar futures, traded in US$, have dropped over the past few months, but this has been partly offset by sterling also weakening against the US dollar. In £ per beet tonne terms, sugar ...

British Sugar's factories sliced more than a million tonnes of sugar beet in three weeks this Christmas - their most productive festive period for six years. The company, which produces sugar ...

France is the European Union's largest sugar producer but a series of poor harvests, caused by adverse weather and diseases, has deterred some farmers from growing beets, cutting supplies for ...