Gary K. Smith / Rows of summer vegetables including Beetroot (Beta vulgaris) with brassicas and carrots covered in mesh tunnel cloches to prevent carrot fly and cabbage white butterfly, Norfolk, England UK. July

Pal Hermansen / Red beet seed (Beta vulgrais) against white background.

Gary K. Smith / Tractor hoeing Sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris) with a front mounted hoe, showing surrounding countryside, church, and farm buildings, North Norfolk, England, UK, June 2013.

Jean E. Roche / Pea pear-shaped weevil (Holotrichapion pisi) on Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris). Provence-Alpes-Cotes-d'Azur, France. April.

Nigel Cattlin / Barley (Hordeum vulgare), used to protect fenland soil from wind erosion, killed by spray to allow a young Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) to grow through, Cambridgeshire, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Prostrate knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare) plants growing in a young Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) crop, England, UK. June

Nigel Cattlin / Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) crop affected by docking disorder by free-living nematodes (FLN) causing severely stunted plant, UK.

Nigel Cattlin / Severe infestation of broad-leaved weeds in young Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) crop, Shropshire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Crop of young Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) plants growing in dry, weed free soil, Worcestershire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Rows of young Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) crop growing in fenland soil, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Young sugar beet (Beta vularis) crop growing on large level field, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Chickweed (Stellaria media), a prostrate spreading weed, growing among Sugar beet (Beta vulgasris) crop seedlings on fen soil, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.