Because the beets are resistant to Roundup, it allows farmers to douse them in the herbicide, eliminating the need to pull weeds. This case could carry weighty implications for Minnesota, which ...

The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative met its environmental ... The shareholders planted 121,385 acres, but were able to harvest about 97,000 acres. They left about 20% of the crop in ...

The co-op in its brief statement also said it would do further investigation into the cause. Beet pulp pellets, a co-product of the sugar manufacturing process, are marketed as animal feed.