2025 General Meeting

Long Beach, CA, February 24 -27, 2025

43rd Biennial Meeting

Long Beach, CA, February 24 -27, 2025

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2017 Biennial Meeting (Past)

Monday, February 27	Class
08:00 - 12:00	USDA / ARS / Industry Meeting	Regency F
09:00 - 18:00	Registration
13:00 - 15:00	BSDF Board Meeting	Crepe Myrtle
13:00 - 17:00	Crop Germplasm Committee	Regency F
15:00 - 16:00	Program Committee	Crepe Myrtle
18:00 - 20:00	Presidents Reception	Studio 220
Tuesday, February 28	Class
08:00 - 17:00	Registration	Meeting Planner Office
09:00 - 12:00	General Session	Regency Ballroom
13:15 - 17:00	Section A	Regency B	David Tarkalson
13:15 - 18:00	Section B	Regency C	Mike Metzger
13:15 - 18:00	Section C	Regency F	Jorge DeVarona
Wednesday, March 1	Class
08:00 - 12:00	Section A	Regency B	Tom Peters
08:00 - 12:00	Section B	Regency C	Lee Panella
08:00 - 12:00	Section C	Regency C	Craig Giles
13:15 - 15:00	Section A	Regency B	Mohamed Kahn
13:15 - 14:55	Section B	Regency C	Oliver Neher
13:15 - 15:00	Section C	Regency F	Jeff Carlson
13:15 - 17:00	Section C	Regency D	Jeff Carlson
15:00 - 17:00	Posters	Redbud Room	Mitch McGrath
Thursday, March 2	Class
08:00 - 12:00	Section A	Regency B	Jim Stewart
08:00 - 12:00	Section B	Regency C	Peter Regiting
08:00 - 12:00	Section C	Regency D	Mike Benedict
13:15 - 18:00	Free Afternoon
18:00 - 19:00	Reception	Pre-Function Area
19:00 - 20:00	Banquet and Awards Program	Regency Ballroom
Friday, March 3	Class
08:00 - 12:00	Board Meeting	Mandalay Room
Monday, March 1	Class
08:30 - 11:30	USDA/ARS / Industry meeting
13:00 - 15:00	CGC Meeting
13:30 - 15:30	BSDF BOD Meeting
Tuesday, March 2	Class
08:00 - 08:30	General Session
08:30 - 11:30	Sections A, B, & C
Wednesday, March 3	Class
08:00 - 08:10	Announcements and Awards
08:10 - 10:40	Sections A, B, & C
10:40 - 12:30	Forums
Thursday, March 4	Class
08:10 - 10:00	Sections A, B, & C
10:10 - 10:30	Closing Session

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

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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.

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