Sugar Beet

Südzucker Tests Crop Protection Solution

Südzucker AG, in association with Amazone and FarmDroid, is testing a solution for the precise application of crop protection agents in sugar bee...

Frost Damage To French Sugar Beet Is Worst Ever, Growers Group Says

Successive cold snaps in the past week have destroyed between 30,000 and 50,000 hectares of French sugar beet, growers group CGB has said, callin...

Sugar Beet Set For Losses As Freeze Hits French Crop Belts

Freezing temperatures across much of France this week may have caused severe damage to newly planted sugar beet, adding to the difficulties of a sector hit...

French Sugar Beet Growers See Brexit Risk As Market Recovers

Large French sugar and ethanol exports to Britain could suffer under new trade terms between the European Union and its former member, clouding prospects f...

France Slashes Sugar Beet Crop Forecast On Disease, Drought

France's farm ministry on Monday cut by 10% its forecast for the country's ongoing sugar beet harvest as it factored in further effects of crop disease and...

France Cuts Nearly All 2020 Crop Estimates

France's farm ministry has lowered virtually all its estimates for cereal, oilseed and sugar beet crops this year after adverse weather throughout the seas...

Nordzucker Begins Sugar Beet Campaign Amidst COVID-19 Backdrop

Nordzucker has announced the commencement of its sugar beet campaign, saying that it has upped the level of hygiene and safety measures at its processing p...

France To Ease Pesticide Ban For Sugar Beet To Curb Crop Losses

The French government will propose lifting a ban on certain pesticides blamed for harming bees to protect sugar beet crops that have been ravaged by insect...