LaRue Sutliff shows one of the tanks that has sat in his garage since the early 1980s, when he was awarded a grant from the federal government to produce ethanol from fodder beets. S. John Wilkin/The ...
Left: Beet seedlings in ‘conetainers’ await vernalization for rapid-cycle seed production. Mitch McGrath is research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Sugarbeet & Bean Research Unit, Michigan State ...