No Ruling on Sugar Beet Injunction

U.S. sugar beet farmers are “on pins and needles” as a federal judge weighs whether to block planting of their crops engineered to be resistant to Monsanto Co.’s Roundup herbicide, lawyers for growers told Bloomberg.

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 genetically engineered sugar beet crops and selling modified sugar beet seeds. He said he would rule “expeditiously” and before ending the hearing told lawyers for Monsanto, farmers and industry groups “there are going to be permanent remedies in this case.”

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