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The effects of magnesium sulphate on sugar-beet yield and its interactions with other fertilizers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

P. B. H. Tinker
P. B. H. Tinker
Affiliation:
Broom's Barn Experimental Station, Higham, Bury St Edmunds*
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Magnesium deficiency symptoms in sugar beet have increased recently. Seventeen factorial fertilizer trials, on fields where magnesium deficiency was expected, gave a mean response of 3.7 cwt/ acre of sugar to 5 cwt/acre of kieserite. Magnesium slightly increased the yield of tops, and either did not affect, or improved, juice purity and sugar percentage; it decreased yield on only one field.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 205 - 212
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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