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Top tips for autumn sugar beet management

With the harvesting campaign on the horizon, BBRO's summer BeetField meetings provided an opportunity to catch up with advice on keeping sugar beet crops healthy this autumn

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 Top tips for autumn sugar beet management

Yellow speckling visible in the crop canopy at BBRO's BeetField site at Linton was evidence of beet moth damage at the site, with the area around Cambridge identified as a hotspot for the pest. This...

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