The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently approved and issued an exemption to the N e braska Department of Agriculture to allow farmers to use metamitron herbicide for weed control in sugar ...

A season that combined good growing conditions with challenges in weed, pest and disease management will be among the themes at the University of Idaho Snake River Sugar Beet Conference, set for Dec.

In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...

CASSELTON, N.D. — There were sugarbeets planted near Casselton, North Dakota, in July, weeks after normal planting would be complete. The reason? The developers of an autonomous weeding robot need to ...