Complete: Mitigating new threats from virus yellows: monitoring aphid populations and insecticide resistance to maintain control
To optimise and sustain the use of insecticides on beet by providing forecasts and up-to-date information on the timing and abundance of aphids, their virus con...
01 Feb 2013
Complete: Review of strip tillage for sugar beet beet production
The objective to this proposed project is to produce a review to better understand how strip tillage is currently being used in sugar beet in the United Kingdom (UK) and across Europe.
01 Jan 2013
Complete: Maximising sugar yield via fungicides
Previous fungicide trials have shown that the application of a single fungicide can give yield benefits of up to 8 adjusted t/ha and, from a two-spray strategy,...
30 Apr 2012
Complete: Monitoring sugar beet storage
The project will re-evaluate sugar losses during storage to take account of modern 'whole beet' recovery practices and the increasing use of A-shaped storage clamps.
22 Feb 2012
Complete: Evaluation of novel defoliators
To evaluate the yield gains that could be obtained in commercial sugar beet defoliation systems.
14 Sep 2011
Complete: The effect of paper pulp on the beet crop
Landfill is becoming increasingly expensive. This project assessed the impact of the use of paper pulp on sugar beet .
15 Jun 2011
Closed: Innovative strategies to control and monitor sugar beet pests and diseases
This project integrates closely with existing BBRO and BBSRC LINK- supported projects on disease resistance, foliar disease control and nematode dynamics.
20 Apr 2011
Complete: Plant populations and N rate
Assessment of the impact of increased plant populations and N rates on high-fertility soils
Complete: Seed rates and optimal spatial arrangement of seeds for maximum yield and profitability
01 Jan 2011
Complete: Genotypic differences in susceptibility to frost damage
Temperatures during the 2010/11 campaign caused significant levels of frost damage to beet still in the ground, resulting in major financial losses to growers and the processor.
28 Apr 2010
Complete: Inputs / outputs
Effects of increased input costs on crop profitability
20 May 2009
Complete: Early-sown bolting trials to characterise varietal bolting
The BBRO vernalization-intensity bolting model for sugar beet - initially reported in the final report of an earlier BBRO Project and published in its final version in a peer-reviewed scientific paper - provides an objective way of quantifying seasonal intensities of vernalization and defining the bolting characteristics of particular varieties.
20 Jan 2009
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