I just got a heads-up on something that has just happened to threaten next year's sugar beet crop. Do you have your year's supply of sugar yet? And remember, if sugar shortages happen, all other foods with sugar will go up: cake mixes, candy, barbecue sauce, etc.
--Amy
I just got a heads-up on something that has just happened to threaten next year's sugar beet crop. Do you have your year's supply of sugar yet? And remember, if sugar shortages happen, all other foods with sugar will go up: cake mixes, candy, barbecue sauce, etc.
Federal judge orders sugar beet stecklings destroyed
http://www.magicvalley.com/business/local/article_e46814f9-3cbf-5c7a-96d3-c0338b644349.html
A federal judge has ordered genetically modified sugar beet stecklings, which grow new beet seed, to be destroyed.
The decision raises questions about the 2012 seed supply and may have further complicate rules that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed for the 2011 growing season.
Stecklings are root stock planted in the fall, uprooted during the winter and then replanted to produce seed the following season.....
The beet industry has argued that a complete ban on the Roundup Ready technology until May 2012, when the full environmental impact statement is slated to be completed, will cause significant disruptions to half the domestically produced sugar supply. A USDA report estimated that up to 37 percent of sugar beet production would be lost under a ban. Beets provide about half of the domestically produced sugar.
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