A look back at 2016 and ahead to 2017If there are two words out there that farmers never wish to hear used together, it’s PESTICIDE RESISTANCE. Unfortunately, growers had to face this issue head on with Cercospora Leaf Spot (CLS) in some portions of the upper Midwest during the 2016 growing season. The fungal pathogen Cercospora beticola, which causes CLS, is now confirmed resistant to a widely used fungicide.
Click here to check out the entire current issue! Insights from American Crystal’s Kelly Thomas If you are a sugarbeet grower, the growing season can be a long, hard road — from planting in the spring, to spraying in the summer, to the grueling grind of harvest in the fall. If you’re a harvested sugarbeet root, however, once you get dumped out of the trailer at the piling station, your battle is only about half over.
Click here to check out the entire current issue! Following Don Lilleboe's retirement at the end of the summer, Mike Spieker takes over as just the third editor of 'The Sugarbeet Grower' since 1963!
Red River Valley grower celebrating 20 years of raising beets.
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Mike SpiekerEditor & General Manager of The Sugarbeet Grower Archives
March 2020
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