Evaluation location: Colorado, United States
Study Name: BEET_RHIZOCTONIA_COLORADO Experiment Type: Field Field Exp. Design: RCB Exp. Location: Fort Collins Latitude: 15 Degrees 15 Minutes Elevation: 1525 meters % Organic matter: 2 Soil pH: 8.1 Potassium: 272 ppm Phosphorous: 10.3 ppm Nitrogen: 10 ppm Soluble salts: .4micromhos Min photoperiod: 12 Max photoperiod: 14 Min temperature: 39 Max temperature: 94 Total rainfall: 302 Mean daily rainfall: 2.5 mm/day Irrigation type: OH Irrigation days: 2 Total irrigation: 10 (mm) Fertilizer type: N/P Total fertilizer: 683 kg/ha Year started: 05/15/1992 Year seeded: 05/15/1992 Year planted: 05/15/1992 Year tested: 07/21/1992 Year ended: 09/21/1992 Experiment length: 0,1,23 Pest protection: HERBIC Comment: Epidemic extremely mild due to unusually cool, wet summer. Disease evaluations unreliable this year. Annual types are difficult, if not impossible, to evaluate accurately.