Sugar beet growers throughout North America face significant challenges in raising their crops. Biotechnology provides a platform for new technologies to manage these challenges and develop traits, such as increased options for weed control, insect protection and disease resistance. Today, Roundup Ready® sugar beets are helping growers manage weeds, improve productivity and lessen impacts on the environment, while delivering a sustainable and geographically diverse supply of the same pure and natural sugar that customers count on.

Roundup Ready sugar beets have been enhanced through biotechnology and contain the Roundup Ready gene to tolerate applications of labeled Roundup agricultural herbicides, which contain the active ingredient glyphosate.

The Roundup Ready sugar beet system offers superior weed control, while delivering significant environmental benefits because they can be grown in a sound agronomic way that has less impacts on the environment.

• Unsurpassed Crop Safety
  Academic trials at eight universities demonstrated outstanding crop safety for the Roundup Ready sugar beet system compared to a conventional herbicide program. Roundup agricultural herbicides provided excellent weed control without harming the sugar beet plants.
• Improved Weed Control
  Glyphosate tolerance, the technology found in Roundup Ready crop products, addresses one of growers’ biggest and costliest problems – weed control. Roundup agricultural herbicides provide excellent control of a wide range of both broadleaf and grass weeds.
• Flexible Weed Control
  Roundup Ready sugar beets and labeled Roundup agricultural herbicides offer the potential for a simple, flexible weed-control program for sugar beet growers.
• Reduced Trips Across the Field
  The Roundup Ready system in sugar beets can reduce the number of trips across the field, saving fuel, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and allowing growers to enhance soil and water conservation in their sugar beet programs.