Cercospora Impacts Beet Quality

Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Executive Vice President Mike Metzger is pleased with overall sugarbeet yields, but disease pressure affected sugar quality. “We should be right in between 28 and 29 tons to wrap up (for an average yield), that’s a good-sized crop, but we are a little disappointed in the quality. For us, it was Cercospora. We had a lot of fields that were tobacco brown, regardless of how many times the guy sprayed, Mother Nature just got the best of us.”