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CERCOTECH®

A new generation of cercospora tolerant sugar beet varieties.

United Beet Seeds CERCOTECH® field

CERCOTECH® varieties combine

Strong cercospora tolerance

  • Slows disease progression
  • Helps to maintain a green canopy to harvest
  • Potentially optimizing fungicide applications.

High sugar yield

  • Maximize photosynthetic efficiency
  • Maintain high yield potential, especially under heavy disease pressure.
United Beet Seeds CERCOTECH® graphics disease progression
United Beet Seeds CERCOTECH® graphics cercospora pressure versus yield
United Beet Seeds CERCOTECH® full logo
United Beet Seeds CERCOTECH® sensitive plot (left) versus CERCOTECH® plot (right)

CERCOTECH® best practices

It is best to always combine CERCOTECH® sugar beet varieties with:

  • A fungicide program, adapted to disease development
  • A long crop rotation
  • The incorporation of crop residues into the soil
United Beet Seeds CERCOTECH® image CERCOTECH genetics are part of the solution, together with fungicide treatment and good agronomic practices.
United Beet Seeds CERCOTECH® storage of beets in the pile

CERCOTECH® benefits for farmers

  1. Helps to preserve yield and sugar content under medium to strong disease pressure
  2. Helps to keep cercospora inoculum in the field under control from year to year
  3. Further optimizes the number of fungicide applications
  • Makes sugar beet growing more convenient
  • Both safer and better for the environment