This is the last Sugarbeet Report of the 2025 season. We’ll do an overview of the season with Erik Branch, NDSU and University of Minnesota Extension Sugarbeet Specialist.

Here to talk about this season’s Cercospora fight and prepping for next year’s growing season is, Ashok Chanda, Extension Sugar Beet Pathologist with the Northwest Research and Outreach Center in Crookston, Minnesota.

Strip till or not to strip till? We will explore the good and bad of each. Here to guide us is, Lindsay Pease, Nutrient and Water Management Extension Specialist with the University of Minnesota and Northwest Research and Outreach Center in Crookston, MN. 

Growing cover crops in Sugarbeet can be challenging. Anna Cates, University of Minnesota Soil Health Specialist has the latest research.

Today we’re talking about Cercospora leaf spot research with Nate Wyatt, USDA Research Plant Pathologist in the Sugarbeet and Potato Research Unit.

Let’s go south for an update from Mark Bloomquist, Director of Research for the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative.

Even this late in the growing season, Cercospora Leaf Spot is hanging around. Providing some advice is Ashok Chanda, Extension Sugarbeet Pathologist with the University of Minnesota and Northwest Research and Outreach Center in Crookston, MN

It’s the middle of August, what are those beets up to and what is the biggest threat? Let’s find out the latest with Eric Branch, NDSU and University of Minnesota Extension sugarbeet specialist.

Mark Boetel, NDSU Extension entomologist, discusses the latest information regarding sugar beet pests. 

Tom Peters, NDSU and University of Minnesota Extension sugar beet agronomist, has an electric solution to weed escapes.