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2025 Production Seminar will be January 23, 2025. Please see Meeting Info for the full agenda.
2024 Production meetings have been posted under "Meeting Info"
Check the Ag Beet tab for the latest Agronomy Updates.
The Agricultural Beet is a publication of the SMBSC Agricultural Department that focuses on agronomic topics of interest to our shareholders. The most recent publications of the Agricultural Beet are posted below as PDF documents that may be opened and printed. Some of these are large files and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed.
SMBSC maintains six Campbell Scientific weather stations located across our growing area to monitor temperature, humidity, and rainfall. The data from these stations are used to help determine the potential of Cercospora leafspot infection to sugar beets. A Disease Index Value (DIV) is calculated based on the temperature and humidity during the previous 24 hour period and the industry standard is to interpret these in 48 hour periods. As such, the graph below lists the sum of the 48 hour DIV for the respective stations. The higher the Disease Index Value, the higher the potential for this disease to infect the sugar beets.
SMBSC maintains six Campbell Scientific weather stations located across our growing area to monitor temperature, humidity, and rainfall in selected sugarbeet fields. The data from these stations is used to help make timely applications of crop protection products against sugarbeet diseases such as Rhizoctonia root rot and Cercospora leafspot. The stations are also used to monitor air and root temperatures during the fall harvest season.
The following PDF documents may be opened and printed. Some of these are large files and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed.