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Sugar beets

N-xt Fertilizers offers a complete fertilization strategy for sugar and fodder beets. A key focus here is to dose the right minerals in the right place and continue to optimize cooperation with soil processes. The properties of the N-xt liquid fertilizers are unique in its kind; no salts, not leaching sensitive, plant absorbable and stimulate soil life.

Result: a controllable crop with efficient use of minerals, where an active soil biology with the nutrients from the soil form a perfect combination for a healthy and sustainable beet crop.

N-xt crop strategy sugar beets

The N-xt crop strategy for sugar beets improves root growth, initial development and sugar production,
where natural resilience leads to quality and higher yields.

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Minerals
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Granular fertilizer or N-xt Soil Fertilizer
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N-xt Calcium
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N-xt Leaf
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N-xt Leaf
Biology
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Ferti-Release
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Ferti-Vital
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Ferti-Vital
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Ferti-Soil
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Ferti-Life

Applications in beet cultivation

The above strategy provides the right minerals that are crucial for a healthy beet crop at each stage. The N-xt liquid fertilizers have been specially developed for this purpose. Liquid dosing at seeding requires the right equipment (feel free to ask us about this). The high efficiency saves you a lot of nitrogen and phosphate. Important is the unique cooperation of the N-xt fertilizers with the biology in the soil. The additional additives such as Ferti-Release and Ferti-Vital also have an important contribution to this.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does the application of the N-xt soil fertilizer look like in beet cultivation?

In beet cultivation, just like other fine-seeded crops, a knife coulter can be dosed next to the seeding element. This can be done in the same pass (with a metering unit in the front linkage - see photo).

Home Crops Sugar beets
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Granular fertilizer or N-xt Soil Fertilizer

Calcium, magnesium and potassium are essential minerals for both soil structure and sugar beet cultivation. Via an Albrecht soil analysis, Healthy Soil BV (part of N-xt Fertilizers) can map out exactly how these elements are distributed in your soil. On this basis, you will receive a targeted fertilization recommendation to bring soil life into balance and to optimally feed the crop.

In practice, growers often fertilize based on NPK requirements. But the actual soil condition is at least as decisive for a successful crop. It is therefore important to make the switch from just 'crop nutrition' to an integral approach with soil nutrition and crop nutrition.

Advice: Know the ratios in your soil

Understanding your mineral ratios helps to identify deficiencies and blockages in time. So you can choose: correct for one season (e.g. on a rental plot), or improve structurally for the long term.

TIPS:

  • In addition to traditional spreading of the extra nitrogen and phosphate, a row application in sugar beets is also excellent. In practice, many plots are already using N-xt Soil Fertilizer formulations such as the N-xt NP24 B Zn, N-xt NP16-7 B Na, N-xt NP22-8 B Na
  • Also consider the need for Potassium and Magneium for your soil (especially from an Albrecht Soil Analysis, we come across this often). Realize that your beet crop also benefits greatly from this.

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N-xt Calcium

Calcium plays a key role in the plant's absorption of all other minerals. This actually makes it an indispensable element for any crop. As discussed earlier with granular fertilizers (point 1), the availability of calcium in the soil is closely related to the ratio to other elements such as magnesium, as well as to the form in which calcium is present (e.g., shells, lime, etc.).

In addition to its function as a "locomotive" for mineral absorption, calcium in beets itself is also important for quality, hardness, and proper distribution and accumulation of sugars. Especially with sugar beets, it is therefore valuable to administer a small, directly absorbable amount of Calcium and Boron at an early stage. Especially when the natural availability in the soil is (still) insufficient.

N-xt Calcium is ideally suited for this purpose: it contains the right balance of calcium and boron (optionally supplemented with silicon), and is directly available to the plant thanks to the unique complexation technique. Because the nutrients are in a stable compound, they do not react undesirably with other elements in the soil and do not wash out.

Absorption in beets takes place in the upper, active root zone. Therefore, we recommend an application with a 7-hole cap, in the first few weeks after seeding/emergence. With this application we also give about 30 kg of slow release ammonium nitrogen which is very beneficial at this stage.

Advice:

250 liters/ha of N-xt Calcium (N9 Ca B).

  • Spray with a 7-hole nozzle on a cured crop, we want to get the fertilizer on the ground
  • Feel free to spray in the rain or just before a rain shower
  • CAUTION; if onion crop has just been sprayed with contact agents, this will greatly weaken the onion crop

Read more about N-xt Cacium on our product page.

Ferti-Release

In the early stages of the season, this addition promotes soil biology and, in particular, contributes to the uptake of phosphate, potash and trace elements (from soil and possibly slurry).

Advice:

Dose 0.5 ltr/ha of Ferti-Release.

This can be mixed into the sprayer during filling of N-xt Calcium and sprayed as one application.

Read more on the product page Ferti-Release

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N-xt Leaf

In beet cultivation, N-xt Foliar Fertilizer (possibly combined with disease control) is a perfect way to keep the crop healthy and vital. At the same time, foliar sprays offer a better alternative to standard over-fertilization with stkstof, often in the form of KAS (granules). The fact is that nitrate fertilizer drives the aboveground parts and fills them with extra water to dilute the nitrate content in the plant. Thus, it actually becomes a magnet for lice and fungi and thus pathogenic to the plant. Water, energy and trace elements are needed extra to restore this again.

So it is recommended to apply an efficient form of nitrogen through the leaf.

Advice:

40 ltr N-xt N18 Ca Mg Mn

  • This can be combined with disease control
  • Spray at least twice in a season (more often is always possible)
    • 1x in July(point 3)
    • and 1x in Aug/Sept(point 4)

Ferti-Vital

Ferti-Vital is a powerful biostimulant that activates the natural defenses of plants. It increases resistance to both biotic stress (such as fungi, bacteria and insects) and abiotic stress (such as heat, drought, cold, hail, wind or machine damage). Ferti-Vital is the only foliar fertilizer within the Ferti-Line and works directly through the leaf on the plant.

Recommendation:

2 ltr/ha Ferti-Vital

  • Combine this with a N-xt Leaf spray for even better effect.

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N-xt Leaf

In beet cultivation, N-xt Foliar Fertilizer (possibly combined with disease control) is a perfect way to keep the crop healthy and vital. At the same time, foliar sprays offer a better alternative to standard over-fertilization with stkstof, often in the form of KAS (granules). The fact is that nitrate fertilizer drives the aboveground parts and fills them with extra water to dilute the nitrate content in the plant. Thus, it actually becomes a magnet for lice and fungi and thus pathogenic to the plant. Water, energy and trace elements are needed extra to restore this again.

So it is recommended to apply an efficient form of nitrogen through the leaf.

Advice:

40 ltr N-xt N18 Ca Mg Mn

  • This can be combined with disease control
  • Spray at least twice in a season (more often is always possible)
    • 1x in July(point 3)
    • and 1x in Aug/Sept(point 4)

Ferti-Vital

Ferti-Vital is a powerful biostimulant that activates the natural defenses of plants. It increases resistance to both biotic stress (such as fungi, bacteria and insects) and abiotic stress (such as heat, drought, cold, hail, wind or machine damage). Ferti-Vital is the only foliar fertilizer within the Ferti-Line and works directly through the leaf on the plant.

Recommendation:

2 ltr/ha Ferti-Vital

  • Combine this with a N-xt Leaf spray for even better effect.

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Ferti-Soil

After harvesting, it is important to support the activity of biology so that crop residues are quickly broken down and mineral sequestration is optimized.

Ferti-Soil activates and supports this biology and ensures that humification processes are optimal.

Recommendation:

1 ltr/ha Ferti-Soil

Spray with plenty of water (400 ltr/ha) just before incorporation of crop residues and/or sowing of green manure.

Read more on the product page of Ferti-Soil

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Ferti-Life

An active soil biology also throughout the fall is very important. At this stage, the crop has been harvested and crop growth stops but the activity of your soil does not. Old crop and root residues are broken down, converted and stored in the soil(humification). After which, during the winter period, the soil structure can improve and conversions continue due to the (continued) fungal activity with Ferti-Life.

Advice:

25 ltr/ha Ferti-Life

  • Spray with the field sprayer after harvest or during/after sowing a green manure crop.
  • Can also be sprayed in early spring (after clamping of green manure) or land clearing;

The recommendation is then 40 ltr/ha of Ferti-Life.

Ferti-Life creates the right conditions for fungal growth, a highly underestimated soil process that prepares your soil for a good start of the next season.

Did you know:

Soil life is always the first "to the table" in spring! So be aware of How we treat our soils in winter (but also in early spring). make sure that soil life can survive well in winter so that laid down minerals can mineralize nicely again in spring.

Read more on the product page Ferti-Life

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Granular fertilizer or N-xt Soil Fertilizer
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N-xt Calcium
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N-xt Leaf
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