Were there an “Association of No-Till Sugarbeet Producers,” the group probably could hold its annual meeting inside a single beet cart.  Reduced-tillage beet growers?  Of course, there’s a lot of that these days.  Strip-till beets?  Certainly.  But bona fide no-till?  That’s still a rarity, to be sure.

 
 
Three years of research into growing sugarbeets without irrigation in western Nebraska yielded some intriguing results.  But University of Nebraska researchers are not ready to recommend beets as a dryland crop for their region.