“…However, cropping intervals of less than 2 years are not recommended for sugar beet (Götze et al 2017). In most studies, different crops such as winter wheat, winter barley, maize, potato, dry bean, pea, oat and timothy has been grown before sugar beet as preceding crops (Märländer et al, 2003;Buhre et al, 2014;Larney et al, 2016;Götze et al, 2017;Koch et al, 2018). Koch et al (2018) found no dramatic yield loss in sugar beet as a consequence of shorter sugar beet cropping intervals and highlighted the influence of year and grower management on yield.…”