Sugarbeet Feature Stories

    The Sugarbeet Grower has reached a big milestone!  The first issue of this magazine was published 50 years ago this spring, in May of 1963.

lncreased Spent Lime Usage in Southern Minn
Affirmed by University/Co-op Research Results

    The spreading of spent lime (more-technically known as Precipitated Calcium Carbonate, or PCC) on upcoming sugarbeet fields has really taken off during the past decade among Upper Midwest beet growers.  Along with increasing pH and influencing the soil nutrients, the spent lime has been demonstrated to reduce the impact of Aphanomyces and Rhizoctonia root rot in infested fields.

Veteran Grower Gary Mamer Talks About
Raising Sugarbeets in the Imperial Valley

    As of the first of April, sugarbeet growers in the Red River Valley were still waiting for the snowpack to melt and the soil to warm up so they could head out to their fields and get ready to put the 2013 beet crop in the ground.