While crops like turnips and rape have been used regularly by some farmers, new varieties of fodder beet and kale are now offering more options. In the state’s North-West, Roberts agronomist Kurt de ...

Left: Beet seedlings in ‘conetainers’ await vernalization for rapid-cycle seed production. Mitch McGrath is research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Sugarbeet & Bean Research Unit, Michigan State ...

Farmers feeding their cows with a multi purpose sugary tuber are recording up to three more litres of milk a day. They also save on feed cost, that has become unaffordable to dairy farmers due price ...

You've seen intersections littered with spilled sugar beets, the result of truck drivers perhaps going too fast while negotiating a turn. Thankfully, an intersection wasn't the landing place for a ...