Others include the leaf vegetables chard, spinach beet and sugar beet, which is important in table sugar production. White and red beetroot are planted in the region with farmers preferring the latter ...

Leonard Wachira a beetroots farmer on his farm at Ndathi Village in Kieni, Nyeri County on July 6, 2016. [Kibati Kihu, Standard] Beetroot, which is also known as garden beet, is a healthy vegetable ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Hearing that crisp snap as the roots separate and a fresh radish is plucked from carefully cultivated soil is a sound farm manager Kaitlin Davis doesn't tire of hearing. “Right now, I'm ...

Back in mid-November, just as the 2013 farming season was concluding, four sugarbeet growers — Kelly Erickson, Rick Gerstenberger, Galen Lee and John Snyder — traveled from their homes in Minnesota, ...