The word 'sugarbeet' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a plant, Beta vulgaris, which is grown for its edible root, which is high in sucrose and used as a sugar crop. For example, "Farmers in our area mostly cultivate sugarbeets, wheat, and corn."
It says, almost in passing: The last crop to benefit from GM technology has been sugarbeet, with a herbicide resistant variety introduced in the USA in 2012, and now accounting for around 95% of the crop grown. From zero to almost everything in two years or less seems like a very short time span to judge the long term impact of this crop.
Its base alcohol is of the cheap variety, typically distilled from sugarbeet.
It also failed to explain how it would pay for fresh subsidies pledged to sugarbeet producers and for 15,000km (9,325 miles) of new motorways.Still, with less American cash on offer than before, the government may have regained a new sense of fiscal prudence and has now promised to cut spending and raise taxes.
Using crops like sugarbeet to make biofuels in dry regions must be abandoned.
The sugarbeet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus, winters as an adult in desert areas and produces an early spring generation on desert plants.
Wheat and barley have shrivelled, sunflowers have wilted and sugarbeet has barely reached half its normal size.
He joined protests against the Newbury bypass and Manchester airport, and was heavily involved in the anti-GM movement of the 1990s, ripping up sweetcorn and sugarbeet crops from fields in East Anglia, and on occasion being chased by police and police dogs.
Elizabeth's father, Henry Cecil Jennings, was chief medical officer for her birthplace of Boston, Lincolnshire, whose environs - "a flat land of sugarbeet and tulips" - were to be vividly recreated in some of her later poems.
About 93% of the soybean seeds in the United States are genetically modified, along with 88% of corn, 94% of cotton and 90% of sugarbeets, which provide about 54% of the sugar sold in America, as the HuffPo's blog has pointed out.
Nick Sinner, the executive director of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association in Minnesota and North Dakota, says that the cost of sugar makes up a small percentage of the retail price of candy, and argues that it has little impact on domestic jobs.
"While the sugar beet is genetically different, the sugar is the same," said Luther Markwart, executive vice president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association and co-chairman of the Sugar Industry Biotech Council.
