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XBEET®
- A new generation priming technology for sugar beet seed
Where next?
 XBEET
is a clear breakthrough in priming technology for sugar beet
seed. Data secured by independent testing delivers a unanimous
result which confirms its performance in advancing the crop
safely for a consistently higher gain. Today’s sugar production
climate needs all tools at its disposal, which deliver
noticeable returns on the investment made. XBEET is one such
tool, and its performance on the wide range of genetic sources
gives it a universal appeal.
A more extensive network of XBEET trials has been put in place
in 2008 in the USA, UK and Continental Europe through the
collaboration of the Sugar Industry, beet growers and European
seed companies.
Germain’s commercial experience gained in the USA is being
invested in Europe in 2008 with the creation of a first large
scale XBEET priming facility at its King’s Lynn site. This will
enable Germain’s to offer XBEET primed sugar beet seed to the UK
growers for planting in 2009.
Acknowledgements: to British Sugar, Germain’s Technology
Group North America, and SESVANDERHAVE for the provision of
trialling facilities.
Advantage, PAT and XBEET are registered trademarks of Food
Investments Ltd
References for further reading:
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Dr. Philip
Draycott - The Advantage of Advantage on Sugar Beet –
British Sugar Beet Review – Volume 74 – no.1 - Spring 2006
issue
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Dr. Philip
Draycott, Dr. Helen Smith, Veronique Heyes, John Prince –
Seed Advancement – Theory and Practice – British Sugar
Beet Review – Volume 70 – no.2 – Summer 2002 issue
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Randall L.
Hemb, James F. Stewart, Lee A. Hubbell, Ralph A. Fogg, Corey
J. Guza, David B. Wishowski, Steven S. Poindexter –
Evaluation of XBEET™, an enhanced sugarbeet priming system
– ASSBT meetings - Salt Lake City, USA – Spring 2007
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