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Contents DEPARTMENTS 6 Sweet Talk From the Editor 7 Calendar What’s happening 8 Off the Top News, products, people and updates 10 ASGA by Luther Markwart 30 From the ASA by Larry Combest FEATURES 12 Harvester Time Buyer’s Guide and recommendations 15 Manganese Fertilizers Amber Moore, University of Idaho, discusses the current position on glyphosate resistance and manganese deficiencies in sugarbeets 22 Impacting Growth Hormones in Sugarbeet? By Dr. Bryan Hopkins and Joshua J. LeMonte: they discuss how plant hormones regulate growth by signaling necessary changes for the plant to complete its life cycle successfully 26 Smart Irrigation Month Supporting water conservation by using or converting to technologically advanced irrigation systems and practices; 5 Irrigation Company Profiles 35 YEARS OF SUGAR PRODUCER 16 A Dream Fullfilled By Jason Harris 17 My Memories By Dennis Searle 19 A Salute to the Industry By Gary Rawlings 20 Legacy: Flegenheimer at the Helm By Terri Queck-Matzie ON THE COVER: Long before the magazine was printed and distributed to growers, a couple of youngsters proudly hold up a sugarbeet for the camera. That was in 1967, pictured are Bryce and Lynn Butler, siblings to the current editor, Nancy Sanchez, where they all grew up on a farm in southeast Idaho. Resting on a horse-drawn cultivator, Merle Morgan guides his team through a sugarbeet field located in Riverside, west of Blackfoot, Idaho during the growing season of 1965. Notebook supplied by Wayne R. Butler, highlighting production costs during the early 1960s. Celebrating 35 Years Special Sugar Producer Retrospective 06/07.2010 4 Sugar Producer June/July 2010