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Home Subscribe Current Issue Contact Us Buyer's Guide Calendar Researchers Feature Industry News New Products Organizations To Advertise	SPONSOR OF THE MONTH HOT INDUSTRY NEWS In The Field Now: Powdery Mildew and Rhizoctonia Applications USDA Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook 26TH INTERNATIONAL SWEETENER SYMPOSIUM Sugar Producers to USDA: Food Companies Crying Wolf A New Look for Sugar Producer The Hand That Feeds U.S SUGAR PRODUCER FEATURE Making New Ground Sometimes, adversity breeds innovation. That’s the case for beef and dairy producers. For decades, they depended on corn as the primary feedstuff for their livestock. Then the ethanol boom hit, ...more One Pass Growers have a myriad of tools in their belts. They can’t just know how to grow a crop—they have to be business executives, economists, prognosticators and mechanics. And sometimes they have to do...more Cutting Your Losses Controlling sucrose loss in sugarbeet storage has been an industry goal since the 1950s. Sugarbeet roots utilize sucrose for energy to maintain themselves. Dessication from wind and sun or too ...more Un Puente a la Vez – One Bridge at a Time For Luis de la Garza, work is about bridges. As Hispanic Consultant for Lookout Ridge Consulting, de la Garza is trying to bridge the gap between U.S. farm owners and managers and Spanish-speaking fa...more Rounding the Rotation During the time of the Dust Bowl, growers did not realize that the devastation was due in part to the lack of crop rotation. Similar results are blamed on the Irish Potato Famine, where that historic...more Preserving a Valuable Tool Since man first began to till the ground in an effort to stabilize his food supply, weeds and weed control have been a significant impediment to his success. By their nature, crop plants are not...more Nitrogen Management It seems at times that we get stuck on one note and just keep playing it until we become insensitive to it. I hope that this is not the case as we continue to learn more about nitrogen and how much...more Editor's Note: Job Well Done How many times have we wanted to hear those words, “job well done,” after completing a project? How many times have we heard it directed toward ourselves? And, maybe more importantly, have we offered...more ASGA Report: Remarkably Solvent With nearly record attendance, the 2009 American Sugarbeet Growers Association annual meeting revealed positive news. It is a good time to be a sugar producer despite the daunting political atmospher...more Safe Use of Pesticides With growing health and environmental concerns, using pesticides properly is something growers just have to get used to. “I’ve heard people say: ‘I want something that will kill anything but isn’t da...more Seed Based on Focused Research and Grower Resonse Sugarbeet growers across North America look to Betaseed for meeting their sugarbeet seed needs. For nearly 40 years Betaseed has provided strong, vigorous, and disease tolerant sugarbeet seed varieti...more Observations From The Field The introduction of Roundup Ready Sugarbeets into Amalgamated Sugar Company’s growing areas in the spring of 2008 got off to a very rough start. As spring planting approached, it became questionabl...more A Business Built By Those Who Needed It Built on the premise that a farmer knows what he needs, Ron Schlagel put a system together that would combat the ferocious winds destined to blow out their newly planted crops. Wind erosion is a big ...more Wind Power: Turbines Offer Growers Power Endurance Wind Power Inc. manufactures and distributes one of the safest and most cost-effective wind power turbines for the generation of grid-connected “clean energy.” The founders of the Endu...more Cover Story: The Strip-Tillage Method Sandy soil, hard-blowing winds, pelting rain and delicate beet seeds aren’t the ideal mixture for a successful spring planting. Determined to find a way to keep a field with those conditions in produ...more Visiting Our Agricultural Heritage In a time filled with economic woes and world-wide commotion we must look to our country’s founders and initiate patriotism alongside agricultural roots. Emerson says, “The first farmer was the fi...more Rural Matters Farming practices have been under attack in mainstream media and for this reason I desired to present an issue that asserts that the real agricultural heroes are those individuals who tend the land. ...more Tank Mixes with Roundup Ready As growers gear up for the first full-fledged season of planting Roundup Ready sugarbeets, questions surface about what can be tank mixed with Roundup. Thousands of acres of corn, soybeans and cot...more
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