Nutrient management in a strip-till sugar beet system

University of Minnesota Extension Northwest Research and Outreach Center Specialist Lindsay Pease talks with the Red River Farm Network about nutrient management in strip-till sugar beet systems.

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Red River Farm Network: This is the Soil Fertility Minute brought to you by the Agricultural Fertilizer Research and Education Council. Our guest is University of Minnesota Extension Northwest Research and Outreach Center specialist, doctor Lindsey Pease.

Lindsay Pease: And one of the projects that we’ve had going on, you know, funded by AFREC has been looking at nutrient management in strip till sugar beet systems. How we’ve been fertilizing those strip till beets is actually when you are using a Gandy unit to put the fertilizer down, then incorporating it with the strip till unit.

And we’ve gotten really good results from a fertility standpoint, putting that fertility down in the row in the fall. Then you plant the beets in the spring and this past growing season our strip till beets actually in 2025 yielded better than our conventionally tilled beets. So there seems to be a really effective way of both getting the nutrients down, getting yields up, and protecting the soil all at once.

Red River Farm Network: AFREC is a farmer led program advancing soil fertility research. Find out more at MNSoilFertility.com.