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An investigation into the spacing of monogerm sugar beet seed in the development of the spring mechanization of the crop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

L. F. Hanbury  and
G. L. Maughan
L. F. Hanbury
Affiliation:
National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford
G. L. Maughan
Affiliation:
National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford
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1. Over 3 years monogerm sugar beet seed spacings of up to 5 in apart produced sufficient plants to form an adequate plant population for maximum yields. In the first two seasons the braird from a 5 in seed spacing did not need to be thinned; but in the third it contained over 50,000 seedlings per acre and so had to be reduced by thinning to approximately 30,000 per acre.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 275 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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