Bruce Sundeen  0:00  
This is the sugarbeet report, bringing you the latest information from NDSU. Throughout the sugarbeet growing season, now's a good time to get a jump on the upcoming sugarbeet growing season. Knowing and applying the best practices can make all the difference in that quest for high profits. Here to discuss those practices is Mohamed Khan, extension sugarbeet, specialist at NDSU and the University of Minnesota. Welcome Mohamed. Let's talk about best practices for getting those high profits. First of all, what should the grower do as a first step and considering field selection?

Mohamed Khan  0:35  
Select your best fields for sugarbeet and shoulders proper drainage, or else the environment will become favorable for soil borne diseases later in the season. Prepare a friable well drain and weed free seed bed and fertilize in the fall or spring based on a soil test.

Bruce Sundeen  0:53  
Are there any specific requirements you suggest for seed and seedling protection?

Mohamed Khan  0:58  
Yes, when ordering seeds, make sure seeds are critical fungicides such as Kobina, Sustiva, and vibrance. That will give protection against rhizoctonia damping off that your garden that will give protection against often MIT's dapping off and insecticidal seed treatments that will control common insects such as root maggot and wireworms. Fields with a history of sugarbeet wood Maga will also need a granular insecticide at planting, as well as protection just before peak fly activity.

Bruce Sundeen  1:29  
What are your thoughts on seed spacing

Mohamed Khan  1:32  
plant seeds at about four and a half to four and five eight inches apart to get about 175 to 200 evenly spaced plants per 100 foot a row in 22 inch rows

Bruce Sundeen  1:44  
With sugar beets will planting a cover crop help producers.

Mohamed Khan  1:47  
It is a common practice to see the cover crops such as wheat oats arrived at or just after planting sugar beets. The cover crop will be killed with glyphosate during the weed control, but carcasses will still provide protection from the wind for sealing and small sugarbeet plants.

Bruce Sundeen  2:06  
What do you recommend for effective weed control?

Mohamed Khan  2:09  
We have limited options for weed control, so we have to be careful and strategic. Since all of our growers use crop rotation, use herbicides that are more available in rotating crops to control herbicide resistant weeds in a sugarbeet crop start weed control already. Start with a weed free seed bed. Use a pre emergent a soil incorporated or lead by herbicide were possible. For post emergent herbicide applications. Start when weeds are small and continue until road closure. If necessary. Use mechanical weed control and or labor to keep the weed seed population as low as possible.

Bruce Sundeen  2:49  
Rhizoctonia is considered the worst root disease of sugarbeet Do you have any specific recommendations for managing rhizoctonia?

Mohamed Khan  2:57  
Yes, for fields with a history of rhizoctonia use the rhizoctonia resistant variety and apply fungicides such as is oxy strobing at planting and or a default to 60 stage just before a rainfall. Any final thoughts? Be prepared to harvest a bumper sugarbeet crop?

Bruce Sundeen  3:16  
I like your optimism Mohamed. Our guest this week has been Mohamed Khan, extension sugarbeet specialist at NDSU and the University of Minnesota. This is the sugarbeet report, bringing you the latest information from NDSU throughout the sugarbeet growing season

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