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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 22 > Crop offers a seed of possibility

Crop offers a seed of possibility

Genetically modified sugar beet seeds led to a suit and spawned controversy in the Valley. Could they have a better chance here?

By Lauren Dake / The Bulletin
November 22, 2008

MADRAS — Second-generation Madras farmer Stan Sullivan leans over a row of leafy sugar beets, uprooting one and then another. Surrounded by fields of Jefferson County’s more traditional seed crops — carrot, onion, garlic — the beet roots, which to the....

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