"beet" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to either the vegetable (e.g., "I roasted some beets for dinner") or the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s (e.g., "The Beat writers were passionate about social reform").
With feelings running high, the sight of a Network Rail hi-vis jacket beside a level crossing attracts the attention of a man who comes striding across a Suffolk beet field, brandishing an alarmingly large pair of secateurs.
Surrounded by sugar beet farms and trapped by a huge curve in the river Ouse, it was a village overshadowed by Europe's largest coal-fired power station (its chimney polluted Scandinavia) and flanked by the Selby coalfield.
"We have given up some of our land that we used to grow sugar beet in, to plant beetroot, parsnips and carrots.
The people the CAP helps most are big businessmen with vast fields of sugar beet in northern France or miles of bright-yellow oil-seed rape in southern England.The key reform proposed by the European Commission is to cut the link between farm subsidies and production.
And yet the European Union is one of the world's biggest exporters of sugar.This is possible only because Europe's sugar farmers are as adept at extracting favours from Brussels as they are at extracting sucrose from beet.
Indeed, we rejected GM oilseed rape and GM beet following our own farm-scale trials, which showed they damaged the environment.Our top priority is to protect human health and the environment through robust regulation of GM crops on a case-by-case basis, consistent with the precautionary principle.
For sugar alone, the European Union puts 140% tariffs on many imports from Africa, supports its own sugar-beet farmers to the tune of $1.6 billion a year, and adds insult to injury by dumping surpluses in overseas markets.There is no realistic belief that the summit will change these policies substantially.
In the early 20th century, Mexicans were brought in to work on railway lines, to tend sugar-beet fields or even as "scab" steelworkers during strikes; some stayed and founded communities like la Villita.
Groningen is a pleasant place, with an old university, but its claims to fame do not extend to much beyond the industrial processing of sugar-beet and a glorious 15th-century tower.
Such as those of Minnesota's many sugar-beet growers.The bill may face pitchforks in the House of Representatives.
US Sugar has joined a marketing venture with sugar-beet producers which now commands a 25% share of America's $6 billion white sugar market.Beyond such broad similarities, the two companies' approach to change differs probably because their ownership does too.
