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Nitrogen requirement of sugar beet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

M. R. J. Holmes  and
J. R. Devine
M. R. J. Holmes
Affiliation:
Fisons Limited – Fertilizer Division, Levington Research Station, Ipswich
J. R. Devine
Affiliation:
Fisons Limited – Fertilizer Division, Levington Research Station, Ipswich
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Summary

Seventy-four field experiments on the nitrogen requirement of sugar beet were made in eastern England in. 1966 to 1974. Considerable differences in sugar yield response to nitrogen were found between the six soil types used, and these differences were found (on five of the six soils) to be related to sugar yield. Nitrogen response was large on chalk and limestone soils in Lincolnshire, intermediate on East Anglian boulder clays and least on East Anglian chalk and light drift soils. On the lighter soils (limestones, East Anglian chalks and light drifts) nitrogen response was greater with high summer rainfall than with low. Fenland silt soils were very high yielding, but nitrogen response was moderate.

Optimum nitrogen rates differed between soils, in the range 100 kg/ha on East Anglian chalks and light drifts to 180–200 kg/ha on Lincolnshire chalks and limestones.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 87 , Issue 3 , December 1976 , pp. 549 - 558
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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