Lifting sugar beet
Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), a member of the Chenopodiaceae family, is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is grown commercially for sugar production. The sugar beet is directly related to the beetroot, chard and fodder beet, all descended by cultivation from the sea beet. The European Union, the United States, and Russia are the world's three largest sugar beet producers,[1] although only the European Union and Ukraine are significant exporters of sugar from beets. The harvested 1,004,600 acres of sugarbeets in 2008 alone.[2] Beet sugar accounts for 30% of the world's sugar production. In the United States, genetically modified sugar beets resistant to glyphosate (marketed by Monsanto Company as Roundup), a herbicide, were planted for the first time in the spring of 2008. Sugar from the biotechnology-enhanced sugarbeet has been approved for human and animal consumption in the European Union. This action by the EU executive body allows unrestricted imports of food and feed products made from (H7-1) glyphosate-tolerant (Roundup Ready) sugarbeets. On September 21, 2009, a federal court ruled that the USDA had violated federal law in deregulating Roundup Ready sugar beets without adequately evaluating the environmental and socio-economic impacts of allowing commercial production, and will be considering an appropriate injunction
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Location: West Norfolk Fens - England
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Keywords: agriculture, beet, beta, chenopodiaceae, crop, eater, england, farm, farming, fodder, harvest, harvester, harvesting, kingdom, lift, lifting, norfolk, plant, ropa, sucrose, sugar, uk, united, vulgaris
