Sugar Beet News
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Global sugar production will exceed demand by 3.9 million metric tons next season, 62 percent smaller than a year earlier as output from sugar beets declines due to lower prices, according to Czarnikow Group Ltd.
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The discovery in an Oregon field of gene-altered wheat developed by Monsanto Co. that was not approved for sale shows a failure of oversight that safety advocates say may endanger consumers and U.S. trading relationships.
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Sugar may drop to a low in three to four months before rebounding as millers in top producer Brazil direct more cane to ethanol at the sweetener’s expense, according to RCMA Commodities Asia Ltd.
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Soft wheat and rapeseed yields in the European Union may be smaller than previously expected because of declining crop prospects in the U.K. and some eastern countries, the EU’s Monitoring Agricultural Resources unit said.
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Should the government require companies to label food that contains genetically modified organisms?
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Sugar output in the European Union will probably be little changed in the 2013-14 season even as a longer winter delays beet sowings in the 27-nation bloc, according to London-based trader ED&F Man Sugar Ltd.
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Genetically modified sugar beet plants that would produce seeds for the 2012 planting season can’t yet be destroyed as ordered by a judge, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled.
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Eric Laine was re-elected chairman of French sugar-beet growers’ federation Confederation Generale des Planteurs de Betteraves by the group’s board on Feb. 1.
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French sugar-beet harvesting was slowed down by unusually wet weather last month, disrupting the supply of roots to processors, industry researcher Institut Technique de la Betterave said.
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If you have read anything about the “Monsanto Protection Act,” chances are what you have read is wrong.
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