Volunteer sugar beet

Sometimes grow back from portions of roots left in the field after harvest. Volunteer sugar beets are rarely observed growing among other crops, in ditches, or on roadsides. If volunteer sugar beets were to occur in subsequent crops, they could be controlled by agricultural practices (herbicides, tillage during seed bed preparation). Most seeds left in the upper 5 centimetres of soil will germinate. Seeds that are ploughed deeper may remain dormant until conditions favour germination.