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 ...

Good crop ground cover will be key to managing herbicide costs in sugar beet this year, after dry conditions affected weed control programmes in 2025.

WILLMAR -- Sugar beet growers are invited to a weed control update meeting from 9 to 11 a.m. Nov. 18 at the Kandi Entertainment Center in Willmar. North Dakota State University Extension sugar beet ...

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 ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. - Tom Peters is often asked if he “works with weed resistance.” “I say, no I do not: I work with weeds management,” says Peters, a sugar beet agronomist with University of Minnesota ...

The 2023 growing season marks the 15th anniversary of when Roundup Ready seed revolutionized U.S. sugarbeet production. Before Roundup Ready sugarbeets arrived on the scene, weed control was a ...

A University of Idaho Extension weed specialist is investigating the recent discovery in an Elmore County sugar beet field of a weed that had never previously been detected in Idaho and appears to be ...