Innovations in Sugar Beets – Key Benefits

Sugar – whether from sugar beets or sugar cane, or from biotechnology-enhanced or conventionally improved sugar crops – is the same pure and natural sugar that consumers always have enjoyed.

• The sugar is the same.
• The pulp and molasses used in feed are nutritionally equivalent.
• Roundup Ready® sugar beets help growers manage weeds and improve productivity.
• Using the Roundup Ready system lessens impacts on the environment. Environmental stewardship always has been important to sugar beet growers, who have used all tools available to them in the past. Roundup Ready sugar beets are another grower tool that provides even more environmental benefits.

• Roundup Ready sugar beets require fewer herbicide applications.
• Fewer trips across the field mean reduced greenhouse gas emissions, reduced soil erosion, reduced soil compaction and enhanced water conservation.

University of Idaho Environmental Study