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Snake River sugar beet growers highlight crop risks, labor needs and reliance on glyphosate
Summary
Zach Patterson of the Snake River Sugar Beet Growers Association told the House Agriculture Affairs Committee that sugar beet production in southern Idaho faces weather, disease and labor pressures and that growers rely on glyphosate herbicides.
Zach Patterson, president of the Snake River Sugar Beet Growers Association, told the Idaho House Agriculture Affairs Committee that sugar beet producers in southern Idaho face year-to-year weather and disease challenges, rely heavily on glyphosate herbicides and consider labor the industry’s top concern.
"One hundred percent of the acres in Idaho and Oregon and Washington are reliant upon glyphosate," Patterson said, describing glyphosate as a "complete game…
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