MATERIALS AND METHODS The organic fertilizer, sugar beet trial made in 1992 at Lubbeek, Belgium, was repeated in 1993 on another field (clay ll%, silt 63%, sand 26%, silt loam, pH (KC1) 6.81). This field, relative to the field used in 1992, had a greater soil concentration of organic matter (4.4%) as it was a meadow which had been ploughed 4 years earlier. Two kinds of organic fertilizer treatments were assayed; on 4 March 1993, ...