2021 General Meeting
41st Biennial Meeting – March 1 - March 4, 2021
41st Biennial Meeting
Virtual Meeting – March 1 – March 4, 2021
Registration is now OPEN!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Partnership and Innovation: The Key to Success
Abbreviated Schedule* *Central Standard Time*Section A – Agriculture – General
*Section B – Biotech – Physiology, Genetics and Plant Pests
*Section C – Processing / Factory Operations
View Past Meeting Events
Thank you to the following companies for their sponsorship:
Syngenta Seeds, Inc. – Dessert Table at President’s Reception
SESVanderHave – Refreshment Breaks
Betaseed, Inc. – Wine at the Awards Banquet
MCAG – Wednesday Evening Reception
Monsanto – Two Drinks for President’s Reception
Program Committee
The ASSBT Board of Directors met in March 2020 to begin planning this meeting. Final arrangements are being made for an interesting General Session. An excellent Program Committee has been appointed, who have developed a strong program with attention to current topics of importance to our industry. The Committee consists of:
General Program Chairperson: Mike Metzger – Minn-Dak Farmers’ Cooperative Email: [email protected]
General Program Co-Chairperson: Jay Anderson– Lantic, Inc Email: [email protected]
Agronomy Program Chairperson: Mark Bloomquist Email: [email protected]
Genetics and Plant Pests Program Chairperson: Ashok Chanda – University fo Minnesota Email: [email protected]
Operations Program Chairperson: Ryan Wall – Crystal Sugar Company Email: [email protected]
Poster Program Chairperson: Oliver Neher – Amalgamated Sugar Company Email: [email protected]
American Society of Beet Sugar Technologists
The objectives of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologist (ASSBT) are to foster all phases of sugarbeet and beet sugar research, to promote the dissemination of resultant scientific knowledge, to strive to maintain high standards of ethics, and to cooperate with other organizations having objectives beneficial to the beet sugar industry.