The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently approved and issued an exemption to the N e braska Department of Agriculture to allow farmers to use metamitron herbicide for weed control in sugar ...

WILLMAR -- Sugar beet growers are invited to a weed control update meeting from 9 to 11 a.m. Nov. 18 at the Kandi Entertainment Center in Willmar. North Dakota State University Extension sugar beet ...

In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...

CASSELTON, N.D. — There were sugarbeets planted near Casselton, North Dakota, in July, weeks after normal planting would be complete. The reason? The developers of an autonomous weeding robot need to ...