A report of sugar beet research in southeast Missouri, 1969
Abstract
"Sugar beet research was conducted by the University of Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station at the Delta Center near Portageville in 1969. Experiments included varieties, weed control, soil fertility, fungicides for control of cercospora leaf spot, row spacing, water infiltration, irrigation, fumigants, insecticides, and rhizoctonia control. Selection in breeding stock was made in the field for resistance to the root knot nematode, after which it was screened in the greenhouse. Sugar be et experiments were conducted on three of the major soil types of southeast Missouri."--Page 1.