A Switch to Betanex as Redroot Pigweed becomes the predominant weed. Use rotary hoes and harrows where appropriate to save herbicide costs. Consider a layby application of Treflan, it can be tank mixed safely with microrates on 2-inch tall or larger beets. Eliminate unnecessary cultivations. Cultivated sugarbeets never yielded significantly more than uncultivated sugarbeets.
Cultivation is essential if herbicides fail to control weeds.
Contact your agriculturist for assistance with replant and thinning decisions. Sugarbeet root maggot populations were very high in some areas of the Drayton factory district in 1999. Population Forecast Fig. Predicted sugarbeet root maggot population levels for the 2000-growing season in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota. For Second Insecticide Applications Producing beets in high maggot pressure areas.