Sugar beet

Sugar beet

Sugar beet is a rather capricious and traditionally industrial crop. Beets are demanding on the fertile soil layer, sensitive to field weediness and to predecessors. Sugar beet is not the most profitable crop, although it’s almost waste-free: root crops have industrial and table value, and tops and processed products of the sugar industry – sludge and pulp, are used in feeds and fertilizers.

Peculiarities

Good drainage and granulometric composition of soils in sugar beet lands is achieved by classical agrotechnological methods and reasonable crop rotation. To increase looseness, thermal and moisture regulation of soils, we recommend pre-sowing application of SatoSoil® soil improvers.

Soil improver SatoSoil® Biome has proven itself as a coating material for seed treatment, including in combination with SatoHum® K as a natural disinfectant to guarantee unanimous even shoots of seeds suitable for sowing and the right activation of the soil conditioner. Even using other methods of germination and pre-sowing preparation, it’s recommended to use SatoHum® K for seed disinfection.

The introduction of organo-mineral fertilizers Sato® Turbo NPK with a high content of humic and fulvic acids helps to avoid burns of the root system and excessive overfeeding of beets with minerals, promotes a prolonged release of macronutrients throughout the entire growing cycle.

Beet is a borophilic crop, therefore, the systemic introduction of this micronutrient into critical phenophases, namely during the formation of a root vegetable and growth to technical ripeness, is important. Sato® Turbo K-B, Sato® Turbo K-Mn and Sato® Turbo K-Mo correct essential micronutrient deficiencies and help plants reach their yield potential.

Signs of nutrient deficiency

leaves yellowing and chlorosis - lack of nitrogen and magnesium;
leaves edging browning - potassium deficiency;
insufficient green mass gain - lack of nitrates;
brown spots on the leaves - lack of phosphorus;
wrinkled leaves, twisting of young leaves down - calcium deficiency;
heart rot - a sign of boron starvation, insufficient photosynthesis;
hollowness and corking of the root - an excess of minerals in the root system.

4 Sato® Steps – recommendations for fertilization and top dressing for sugar beet

SOILS

SEEDS

GROWTH

HARVEST

SatoSoil® Biome

Soil feeding after green manure

Incorporation to a depth of 15 cm
5 – 10 t/ha

Pre-sowing application on clean fallows
2 – 3 t/ha and abundant watering

SatoSoil® pHoenix

Correction of saline and acidic soils

Fallows restoration, lands cultivation

Deep plowing up to 18 cm
5 – 10 t/ha

SatoHum® K or
Sato® Turbo

Watering the soil improver
2 – 6 l/ha

SatoHum® K

Planting material treatment

Pre-sowing germination
20 – 30 ml/10 l of water

Adding to the dragee mass
30 ml/1 kg

SatoHum® K or Sato® Turbo NPK

Growth activation
2 – 6 l/ha

SatoHum® Complex

Targeted organo-mineral biostimulation
1,5 – 4 l/ha

Sato® Turbo micronutrients

Development of vegetative organs

Green biomass growth
1 – 2 l/ha

SatoHum® Complex or Sato® Turbo micronutrients

Complex top dressing of crops

No more than 3 applications/cycle: 1 – 2 l/ha

Sato® Turbo K-B/ Sato® Turbo K-Mo

Correction of micronutrient deficiencies

1,5 – 2,2 l/ha

Even weight gain of root vegetables
1,6 – 2,4 l/ha

WARNING AND GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS: 4 Sato® Steps is a comprehensive crop care system that provides the basic crop needs for the main 12 macro, meso and micronutrients for an optimal growing cycle and unlocking the potential of each crop.

SOILS: In pre-sowing application of SatoSoil® improvers, the minimum rate is introduced; when autumn applying, the maximum rate is recommended. When applying Sato® Turbo organo-mineral fertilizers after SatoSoil® improvers, the minimum rate is applied; if the soil hasn’t been treated, the maximum rate is applied. For irrigation, it’s recommended to activate granulates (soil improvers) with SatoHum® K liquid formulation or Sato® Turbo NPK liquid organo-mineral product.

SEEDS/SEEDLINGS/VEGETATION BEGINNING: Treatment of seeds and seedlings with SatoHum® K formulation is compatible with treatment by classical protectants without reducing the rates of their application, and helps to increase the viability of seedlings, the development of the plant and its fruitfulness.

GROWTH: Our SatoHum® solutions have a guaranteed composition with high content of humic and fulvic acids with amino acids of plant origin. It is not recommended to exceed the total applying dose of SatoHum® liquid formulations over 6 l/ha/season, starting from the germination/seedlings phase. If SatoHum® K is used for prophylactic purposes, it is recommended to apply the minimum dose.

HARVEST: Simultaneous fertilization with several SatoHum® products is not expected, excepting the soil improver’s activation. It’s not recommended to exceed the specified application rates. For single, not systemic application of SatoHum® products, the maximum dosage of the product is recommended.