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U.S. sugar- beet farmers are “on pins and needles” as a federal judge weighs whether to block planting of crops engineered to be resistant to Monsanto Co.’s Roundup herbicide, lawyers for growers said Friday.
With the planting season beginning this month, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco heard arguments on a food-safety group’s request for a temporary ban on planting the crops and selling the genetically modified seeds. He said he would rule “expeditiously.”
