"Best Management Practices" for disease and insect control.
The sugarbeet root maggot, aphanomyces, cercospora and even the lowly lygus bug are a few of the pests that present varying challenges year to year. With most diseases and some insects, complete control is either not possible or is cost prohibitive so our approach needs to be more management than control, using all methods, products and strategies available to keep pests in check and under economic thresholds. A planting strategy to include insecticide, flexibility and awareness in cercospora control and indexing soil for aphanomyces potential are a few areas that growers need to be aware of and prepared for.

Sugarbeet Root Maggot Population Forecast for 2007

Your Way To Grow Presentation
(members only)

• Insect Control
• Cercospora
• Rhizomania

Fact Sheets

• Cercospora
• Rhizomania
• Mustang Max
• Drainage

Cercospora Daily Infection Values

Root Disease Management Calendar

Rhizomania Field Identification

• early root symptoms-Polk Co, 2002
• early root symptoms-Polk Co, 2002
• typical wine glass shaped root
• typical elongated, petioles, narrow leaves, & fluorescent yellow in color
• typical yellow spots in fields
• aerial view of field with rhizomania
• 2001 strip trials
(to get pictures of the your factory strips contact your agriculturist)

Fusarium

Fusarium Variety Ratings

Fusarium presentation for 2008

Fusarium Images

• fusarium in foreground
• fusarium (closeup)
• severe fusarium injury
• fusarium root symptoms
• early fusarium root symptoms
• severe stunting with fusarium - July 2004