Tag: sugar beet
Drop the beet: An Idaho town will give a nod to state agriculture on New Year’s Eve
Drop the beet: An Idaho town will give a nod to state agriculture on New Year’s Eve By Laurie Welch (Twin Falls) Times-News December 08, 2019 01:32 PM At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, a giant sugar beet will descend from the sky on the Rupert Square as part of the city’s … Read More
Roadside signs to tell you exactly ‘What’s in the Field’
Roadside signs to tell you exactly ‘What’s in the Field’ By Patrick Burles – Lethbridge News Now September 12, 2018 – 4:15pm LETHBRIDGE, Ab — For a number of drivers travelling along a rural road or highway in Alberta, it’s simply a guessing game when asked what’s growing in the field just outside their vehicle … Read More
New Emulsifier from Sugar Beets
New Emulsifier from Sugar Beets Author: ChemistryViews.org Published: 14 May 2017 Copyright: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Source / Publisher: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry/ACS Publications Associated Societies: American Chemical Society (ACS), USA Published with permission. Emulsifiers are used in many food products such as dairy products or sauces. They keep water- … Read More
Boise’s Amalgamated Sets Sugar-Making Record, Credits Genetic Modification, Breeding
Boise’s Amalgamated Sets Sugar-Making Record, Credits Genetic Modification, Breeding By: Zach Kyle, Idaho Statesman April 25, 2017 Amalgamated Sugar Co, the company that buys all of the sugar beets grown in Idaho, has just finished processing the 2016 crop and says it will result in a record 2.34 billion pounds of sugar. The growers harvested … Read More
Environmental Impacts of GMO Sugar Science Denial
The Environmental Impacts of GMO Sugar Science Denial By: Kevin M. Folta, Science 2.0 May 13, 2016 Several times a year I find myself exiting the Florida’s Turnpike at Yeehaw Junction and heading south. When I get to the small town of Okeechobee I take a left and head down Route 98 through Florida’s extensive … Read More
Mike’s Mix: 2 BĒT Vodka Recipes
Mike’s Mix: 2 BĒT Vodka Recipes April 9, 2016 8:00 AM By: Mike Augustyniak, CBS Minnesota Sugar beets are an ugly vegetable that, it turns out, makes a very sexy spirit. Jerad Poling and Ben Brueshoff are the co-founders of BĒT Vodka, and the entrepreneurs we can thank for that discovery. They met first in the spring … Read More
Researchers Lower Nitrogen Recommendation in Sugarbeets
Researchers Lower Nitrogen Recommendation in Sugarbeets By: Carol Ryan Dumas, Capital Press March 15, 2016 JEROME, Idaho — Improvements in genetics and overall management have significantly reduced nitrogen needs in today’s sugar beet production, according to researchers at the USDA Agricultural Research Service and Amalgamated Sugar Co. Research in the 1990s resulted in recommendations of … Read More
Blogging to Promote Biotechnology in Sugarbeet Industry
Blogging to Promote Biotechnology in Sugarbeet Industry By: Sarah Brown, The Prairie Star • March 09, 2016 Laura Rutherford personifies wholesome American agriculture: the mother of three young boys, a marathoner, and a ninth generation farmer, she and her husband, Roy, farm sugarbeets near Grafton in North Dakota’s Red River Valley. She’s also an Internet savvy blogger … Read More