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SMBSC Beet Growers Face Perfect Storm

Published January 27, 2026

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative Board Chairman Nate Hultgren says a combination of disease pressure, excess moisture, and weak sugar prices made 2025 one of the most difficult years growers have faced. Speaking at the American Sugarbeet Growers Association annual…
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Cercospora Impacts Beet Quality

Published November 10, 2025

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…
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Fungicide Strategies for Cercospora Leaf Spot

Published February 6, 2025

At the 2025 Sugarbeet Growers Seminar in Grand Forks, University of Minnesota Plant Pathologist Ashok Chanda delivered a presentation about Cercospora leaf spot. Chanda said there is a new generation of beet varieties that have extreme tolerance to CLS."In my…
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Season-Long Sugarbeet Disease Management

Published July 21, 2023

According to University of Minnesota Extension Sugarbeet Pathologist Ashok Chanda, there has been less rhizoctonia pressure this season. “Growers are doing an amazing job staying on top of seed treatments and fungicide applications.” As weather conditions change, so does the…
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Controlling Cercospora Leaf Spot is Job #1

Published July 7, 2023

Rains have been spotty, but mostly beneficial for Wendell, Minnesota farmer Ben Brutlag. The fields that missed the rains are showing some crop stress. “We’ve been fortunate to keep getting rain just as we need it. We’re not seeing any…
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The Sugarbeet Report

Published July 9, 2022

NDSU Extension Sugarbeet Pathologist Ashok Chanda tells us about cercospora leaf spot. Hear more in the Sugarbeet Report, presented by Amity Technology, H&S Manufacturing, SESVanderHave and REGEV from SummitAgro.    
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A Solution for Managing Cercospora

Published February 4, 2022

Cercospora control is a major concern for sugarbeet production. Betaseed Vice President of Sales and Marketing Mark Schmidt says the new CR trait from KWS has performed well. "We're excited about CR+. It's a new technology that offers a high…
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