*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Monsanto Co.'s appeal of a ban on the sale of genetically modified alfalfa. But the outcome ...

The biotech fairy must be whispering a whole lot of sweet nothings (made with genetically-modified sugar) into U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s ear. Or something. In late January ...

Organic farmers want federal judge to issue injunction to stop planting of genetically altered sugar beets. Frank Morton is concerned his organic seed farm outside Philomath, Ore. will be contaminated ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Genetically modified sugar beets designed to withstand the weed killer Roundup can be planted under strict conditions with no threat to the environment and other plants, the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Federal agriculture officials have released a plan to let farmers plant genetically modified sugar beets while a lawsuit over them is resolved, but farmers fear a partial ...

Amid rising pressure to remove or label genetically modified foods, General Mills is changing the way it makes Cheerios cereal. The original Cheerios will soon be made without any genetically modified ...

Half the sugar in the United States comes from sugar beets, Stearns noted. There are only two sugar beet seed companies in the country, he said, and one of them is Monsanto, the maker of Roundup.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed new guidelines for labeling foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. Food makers will be required by federal law to use the labels, starting ...

NAMPA-- Sugar beet growers and processors are worried they might not have a crop next year. It all started in 2008, when a number of groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Agriculture's ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A judge's ruling halting planting of genetically modified sugar beet seeds has left growers feeling uncertain as they wait for federal officials to decide the next step for a ...

The federal government says it will allow farmers to plant genetically modified sugar beets while it finishes work on a full environmental impact statement on the beets' effect on other crops and the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Post-Dispatch criticizes Roy Blunt for backing a provision in the recent appropriations bill that will benefit farmers ("Sen.