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Re: Sugar beet harvest - will it be your last?

With increased fertiliser and harvesting fuel costs, we cannot make money in beet anymore and unless BS offer more before August 15, we will not be growing. We grew more spring barley and spring beans this year and we would replace beet with spring beans and some grass for haylage

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by recoveryman on Fri, Jul 11 2008
Help needed on farmers views towards agri-environmental schemes

Hi there, I am a student studying Environmental science at university and am in serious need of a bit more data for a project I am doing for ECM. If any of you have a couple of minutes (if that) could you please fill in the answers to the following questions (very small questionnaire)? 1. What size is...

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by student@mmu on Fri, Mar 28 2008
Re: Maize

Not a huge amount Tas, at least not compared with France et al. According to DEFRA June 2007 statistics maize accounts for 130,800ha last year (up 5%). In comparison wheat totals 1,693,000ha, barley (all) 566,400ha, oilseed rape 564,200ha, potatoes 105,300ha, sugar beet 122,200ha, beans 116,000ha, peas...

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by Mike Abram - Arable Deputy Editor on Wed, Oct 10 2007

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