August 16, 2010
A federal judge has banned Monsanto Co. from planting its genetically modified sugar beets, finding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture deregulated the product illegally.
March 17, 2010
A federal judge has rejected a request by environmental groups to issue a preliminary injunction yanking genetically modified sugar beets from the market, saying the economic impact would be too great.
September 22, 2009
A federal judge has sided with the Sierra Club and other environmental groups that argued the U.S. Department of Agriculture didn't do enough to study the impacts of genetically modified sugar beet crops before it deregulated them at the request of Monsanto Co. and another seed company.