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Sugar Beet
Sugar Beet
Bayer CropScience offers a comprehensive range of products to protect sugar beet, based on the tried and trusted activity of ethofumesate, phenmedipham and uniquely desmedipham coupled with class-leading formulation technology. Disease control is provided by cyproconazole based fungicides. Deltamethrin products are used for foliar applied insect control and seed-treatment insecticide Poncho Beta uses clothianidin.
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Beet fungicides will pay back
For this year's crop 'Yield is King' Agrovista's Mark Hemmant emphasises. "Growers are going to be paid the same price for every beet they can produce so it's important to maximise margins, including going for the best possible disease control."
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Beet seed treatment dilemma
British Sugar's 2009 seed treatment list presents growers with a dilemma - whether or not to continue going all out for yield? Mike May urges growers to consider Broom's Barn's independent review before reaching a decision.
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NEW 4 in 1 Escolta
With powdery mildew, rust, Ramularia and Cercospora on the label, Escolta offers the four-in-one solution for sugar beet disease control. In last year's commercial field trials, Escolta produced yield increases of 20+ t/ha over untreated baseline 65t/ha
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Cercospora
Eileen Bardsley, Bayer technical development manager for sugar beet fungicides profiles this new disease threat to British crops.
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Impact of climate change
Broom's Barn crop physiologist Dr Eric Ober considers the implications of climate change for British beet growing.
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The X Factor
Growers will have a new seed priming option to consider for 2009 seed orders - XBEETT - it's the 'new improved' successor to Advantage and according to Germain's Veronique Heyes will offer growers a further 2% to 3% in yield potential over Advantage.
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Dry spring - weed control
One of the advantages claimed for desmedipham-based formulations - Betanal Carrera and Expert - is their long lasting activity, even under dry conditions, but they rarely get as tough a test as they did last spring.
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Spraying capacity is key
However you plan your weed control in beet crops this season, 'build in flexibility' is the advice from Broom's Barn's Mike May. With many beet growers expanding their scale of operation, more flexibility will be needed to cope with the extra workload.
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Document Search
You can now search our online library for any Labels, MSDSs etc. relating to all Bayer CropScience products
Click here to begin searchWeedspotter
Bayer CropScience provides the best online guide to grass-weeds and broad leaved weeds.
Click here to begin searchSlugWatch UK
SlugWatch is an on-line slug monitoring service from Bayer CropScience - the foremost slug control company.
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