B-1020

Many acres of sugar beets in the North Platte Valley of Wyoming and Nebraska are planted on land that was previously used for dry edible beans. The dinitroaniline herbicides Treflan® (trifluralin), Sonalan® (ethalfluralin) and Prowl® (pendimethalin), alone or in combination with Eptam® (EPTC), have the potential to carryover and damage sugar beets the following year.

Dry edible bean herbicide carryover to sugar beets reports the findings of research conducted at the UW Torrington Research and Extension Center. The objective of the research was to evaluate the effect of several herbicides commonly used in dry edible beans on sugar beets the following season when planted under conventional or minimum-tillage systems.