5.9.2013 -- 579 - Maximizing Glyphosate Effectiveness
IT IS CRITICAL WE PROPERLY USE ALL HERBICIDE FORMULATIONS containing glyphosate. Proper use maximizes weed control and reduces opportunity for resistant weed development.
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4.19.2013 -- 578 - RESISTANT WEED - Survey Results
MANY OF YOU PARTICIPATED IN THE “YOUR WAY TO GROW” MEETINGS conducted by your agriculturists this winter. About 50% of you indicated resistant weeds were present on your farms. Many of you have adopted different strategies to manage resistant weeds. However many options in the weed resistance toolbox are seriously underutilized. There is still time with this late spring to develop appropriate weed resistance strategies in your crop rotations.
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3.25.2013 -- 577 - Glyphosate Resistant Kochia: The Game Changer!
KOCHIA WAS HISTORICALLY THE MOST CHALLENGING WEED TO CONTROL in the sugarbeet crop. Sugarbeet weed control systems with conventional varieties demanded use of every weed control method available even then Kochia control was often inadequate. Roundup Ready® variety technology enabled growers to achieve complete Kochia control with ease.
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3.7.2013 -- 576 - Rhizoctonia Management for 2013
RHIZOCTONIA ROOT AND CROWN ROT CONTINUES TO BE THE MOST SERIOUS YIELD ROBBING DISEASE OF SUGARBEETS. In spite of drier conditions in 2012 Rhizoctonia incidence was common and disease moderate to severe in many fields. Great strides have been achieved in reducing Rhizoctonia incidence and severity, but there are still unacceptable losses in many fields.
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2.14.2013 -- 575 Conventional Herbicide Available
THE SUPPLY OF CONVENTIONAL HERBICIDE PURCHASED BY AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY DUE TO UNCERTAINTY about planting Roundup Ready® varieties is available to retailers. Guidelines for retailers and wholesalers who want to purchase the generic Betamix or Progress products are outlined below. Primary use for the conventional herbicide will be on non-Roundup Ready® varieties.
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1.17.2013 -- 574 - Back to Basics: Foundation of Sugarbeet Success
PROGRESS CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY LOOKING AHEAD, TRYING THE NEW PESTICIDE OR ADOPTING A NEW PRACTICE IN YOUR FARMING business. Many of these new opportunities prove successful and of course some have little or no value for improving profitability. Emphasizing the basics is imperative, continuing those long time tried, true, proven practices that lay the foundation every year for a crop with high yield, excellent quality and increased profitability.
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12.13.2012 -- 573 - The 2012 Crop: Record Yield - Record Quality
The 2012 crop certainly goes down in the record book as #1 all time in both yield, 27.1 tons, and sugar content, 19.14 percent. Congratulations to growers, agriculturists, and allied industry for making it happen. Even year crops in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 have been exceptional. Make note of those decisions implemented in 2012 that led to your successes and repeat them in the future.
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11.15.2012 -- 572 - Managing Fields In 2013 After Unharvested Beets
The entire crop has been unable to be harvested due to wet field conditions and frost damage in 2012. When sugarbeets are left unharvested potential management concerns for crop production on those fields in 2013 should be considered. It is unlikely that serious production problems should arise for any crop in 2013. However the following information may provide answers to maximize yield of crops planted on fields or parts of fields with abandoned beets in 2012.
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9.26.2012 -- 571 - Critical Decisions – Drought – Fall Tillage – Field Selection for 2013
FALL TILLAGE FOR 2013 SUGARBEET FIELDS MAY BE MUCH MORE CRITICAL THAN IT HAS BEEN FOR MANY RECENT YEARS. LACK OF summer and fall rains and potentially drier than average seedbeds next spring make fall decisions that much more important. Dry soil conditions this past spring resulted in wet and dry zones in the seedbed that led to uneven germination and emergence in many fields.
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9.12.2012 -- 570 - Variety Selection is One of the Most Important Drivers to Maximize 2013 Revenue
VARIETY SELECTION DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE EARLIER EVERY YEAR. IN THE RUSH to secure selected varieties, choices are being made with limited coded trial data and no data from the 2012 grower practices record system.
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