Complete: Factory estimates of K in beet tissue water for monitoring the potassium status of soils
The project used beet and soil sampled by British Sugar staff from individual fields prior to the 2005-06 processing campaign to validate the use of factory tarehouse estimates of potassium concentrations in beet tissue-water to characterise the K status of the soil.
27 Apr 2005
Complete: Insecticide resistance dynamics in aphid vectors of beet viruses
Sugar beet yellows is a disease caused by three viruses, Beet mild yellowing virus (BMYV), Beet chlorosis virus (BChV) and Beet yellows virus (BYV). BMYV and BChV are generally far more prevalent than BYV.
20 Apr 2005
Complete: Safe methods of applying protective sheeting to beet clamps
To design, develop and provide a commercial alternative system that allows sugar beet clamps to be covered for protection against frost and uncovered after a frost period, without the need to work at height.
16 Mar 2005
Complete: Seed rates for the new sugar regime
The last experiments on the effects of plant population density on the performance of UK sugar-beet crops on which much of our current advice is based were done over 30 years ago (Hull & Jaggard 1971) and last reassessed nearly 20 years ago (Jaggard 1990).
22 Feb 2005
Complete: Effects of sodium and triazole fungicides on yield and quality on soils of different K index
Sugar beet take up and utilise large quantities of potassium (K) and sodium (Na) - uptakes of 300-400 kg K/ha and over 100 kg Na/ha are common. Potassium and sodium have similar effects on the growth and productivity of sugar beet and have been generally thought to be interchangeable when used as fertilisers.
23 Jun 2004
Complete: Factors influencing crown size and the implications for crown tare
The crown tares of delivered beet have large financial implications for both grower and processor.
19 May 2004
Complete: Agronomic strategies and the economics of organic beet production
Arable cropping has been shown to be economically and technically viable under organic management (Cormack, 1999). However, in the late 1990s, despite strong growth, the market for organic arable crops was limited to cereals, pulses and potatoes. Sugar beet was then, and remains, a major part of the rotation of many Eastern counties arable farms.
11 May 2004
Complete: Consideration of the supply of beet for biofuel production
The EU proposes that a significant proportion of transport fuel shall come from renewable resources.
12 Jan 2004
Complete: Synchronised Granule Application
This project examined the efficacy of synchronised application of a nematicide granule compared to a continuous band application at drilling for the control of nematodes, the soil pest complex and virus yellows, and whether this application technique presented any crop phyto-toxicity effects.
02 Jan 2003
Complete: Value of sugar beet crop for birds and farm environment
This project examined bird use of sugar beet crops in summer and autumn. Foraging and breeding behaviour, along with data on plant food and vegetation composition, were recorded on a total of 15 sites, eight in 2003 and twelve in 2004.
01 Jan 2003
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