Written by cpm
In a recent briefing to AICC advisers, sugar beet breeder SESVanderhave looks at the challenges to sugar beet production and discusses what’s needed to help growers tackle them. CPM reports. It’s really important growers have access to the seed treatment they need, on the variety they’ve selected. By Lucy de la Pasture This season the sugar beet clock has been reset by two decades. The loss of neonics has changed everything and this time around growers don’t have the same effective armoury of active chemistry to tackle their pest problems, comments Ian Munnery, managing director for SESVanderhave UK, as he addresses a group of AICC beet advisers at their office in Lincs. That’s put the onus on sugar beet breeders to come up with a solution and all the breeding houses are working hard to find the genetic traits needed to give new varieties tolerance to pests, weeds and diseases. In fact SESVanderhave plough back 18% of their turnover into R&D, he adds. “It’s not likely to be a single gene solution because virus yellows isn’t a simple disease, it’s made up of a complex of vector-borne viruses. Genetics on their own won’t solve the problem and nor will…
The post Sugar beet – Changing landscape for beet appeared first on cpm magazine.
Continue reading on CPM website...
If you are enjoying what you read then why not considering subscribing:
