The farming of sugar beets — a 27,000-acre crop in Colorado — has changed dramatically in the last decade as genetically modified seed and, much less controversially, GPS-guided tractors and computerized fertilization and irrigation, have improved efficiency and boosted yields. It's this technology — namely the genetically engineered seed that made sugar beets resistant to the Monsanto-produced weed-killer Roundup — that growers say is allowing them to sustain their farms, to pass them down another generation even as American farming is shrinking.
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