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Stand Establishment
Stand establishment and
management, "Foundation for Success".
"Building a strong foundation" is a cliche used over and over again.
Financially, companies want to build a strong foundation, ag chemical companies stress the
importance of that first herbicide application as building a strong foundation, and the
same applies to a profitable sugarbeet crop by building a strong foundation. In this case,
that strong foundation is the establishment and maintenance of a healthy, vigorous stand
of sugarbeets. Field drainage, field selection, crop rotation, seedbed preparation,
moisture conditions, planter maintenance, planter speed, seed spacing, seed size, seed
depth, seed to soil contact, furrow closure, planter plows, the need to thin, use of a
rotary hoe, a harrow or hand labor, do I replant or not and so on. Those are some of the
factors that come into play in establishing that strong foundation. It's critical that
everything is done right! To achieve a final stand of 170 uniform, evenly spaced
beets/100' of row, you have to control the factors that you can and minimize the impact of
the others that you can't. Sometimes wind, heavy rain or frost will dash your hope of that
perfect stand of beets but more often than not, you will win, not Mother Nature.
Planter Info:
Ag Note 467 - Stand Establishment Practices For Success
Your Way To Grow Presentation- Stand Establishment
(members only)
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