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The yield of sugar beet in relation to weather and length of growing season

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

R. K. Scott ,
S. D. English ,
D. W. Wood  and
M. H. Unsworth
R. K. Scott
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Nr. Loughborough, Leicestershire
S. D. English
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Nr. Loughborough, Leicestershire
D. W. Wood
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Nr. Loughborough, Leicestershire
M. H. Unsworth
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Nr. Loughborough, Leicestershire
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Summary

An experiment at Sutton Bonington in 1971 tested the effects of sowing and harvesting dates on yield of sugar beet. Seed sown on 28 March germinated slowly in the cold soil and crop establishment was poor. From early April until the beginning of May the loss in yield of sugar consequent upon delaying sowing by 1 week was 0·4 t/ha. For later sowings the yield loss was greater. During the harvest period the rate of increase in sugar yield was the same for all sowings. Yields of crops sown and harvested on different dates were closely correlated withthe amount of solar radiation intercepted by the leaf canopy.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , October 1973 , pp. 339 - 347
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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