Beets thrive in cooler weather, and their roots tend to become sweeter and more flavorful. Ideally, they should be planted 4 to 6 weeks before the first frost and should reach harvest in about 50 to ...

Explore vegetables you can still plant in October— they thrive in cool temperatures and shorter daylight hours.

A research team has combined magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) to non-invasively track how the sugar beet disease known as syndrome “basses richesses” (SBR) ...

Rain across northern Wyoming temporarily halted sugar beet harvest operations last week, but growers are confident they can ...

Jason Taylor, the owner and manager of TNT Management, set a new world record of 22,604 pounds of extractable sugar per acre ...

Root vegetables are a great thing to have in the garden during our cool season. Since much of the plant is underground, and our ground rarely freezes in the winter, they are a garden plant that ...

Several problems arise from insufficient watering of beets during the growing season, including disappointing size, splitting ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruits. Install tree trunk protectors now, especially on young fruit trees, since rodents who nibble on bark will soon be considering this activity as their ...

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A top Senate Democrat said the Energy secretary divulged during a phone call he’s “planning to curb” work at the sprawling Hanford site. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Democratic Sen. Patty Murray ...