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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
Re: The future of sugar beet

Oliver - we've just had a letter of support in for your meeting from the NFU. I quote: William Martin, Chairman of NFU Sugar said “We have been telling British Sugar for months now that the beet price isn’t good enough. The latest move by growers intent of sticking together and making themselves...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Wed, Jul 9 2008
Beetroot sowing delay in Lincs

Drilling of beetroot, the key crop at Fleet Farm, West Butterwick near Scunthorpe, Lincs started only yesterday - a fortnight later than Chris Moore had hoped. But he remains hopeful that his 80ha (200 acres) of Pablo will achieve their 50t/ha (20t/acre) yield target. "It's been so cold,"...

Posted to Over the Hedge - Arable Barometer farmers' diary (Weblog) by flutefriend on Fri, Apr 25 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
Drilling sugar beet

Posted to Cultivations Corner (Gallery) by Isabel Davies on Tue, Mar 11 2008
Chris Moore with flooded beet & wheat

Posted to FW's Barometer Farms (Gallery) by flutefriend on Fri, Feb 1 2008
Re: Sugar beet harvest - will it be your last?

After the shaky start things got marginally better for the 2007/08 campaign - BS say adjusted yields are close to the five-year average of 57t/ha. Not bad considering the spring drought(?) and wash-out summer! There's a fair range in yields though - anything from 25 to 85t/ha!! What could have been...

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by Paul Spackman on Fri, Jan 18 2008
Lifting beet

Here we are lifting beet at my parents farm. Dont think it did great alas, but certainly better than expected. Drilled April. Sat in ground for weeks doing nothing. Lifted early October. The field has now been drilled with Robigus wheat after being monoed, flatlifted then drilled and rolled. Well emerged...

Posted to TeslaCoils' Gallery (Gallery) by TeslaCoils on Wed, Jan 9 2008
Sugarbeet reforms

Hi Guys. I'm doing my third year project on the reforms to the CAP and how they are/ will affect sugarbeet production. I would be very grateful if anyone, especially farmers, could contact me and tell me about their experiences and opinions. Either post on the forum, or email me on: tobybarber@gmail...

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by tbarber on Fri, Dec 28 2007
Eastern sugar beet yields improve

Just over half-way through sugar beet harvest at Hill House Farm, Hedenham near Bungay, John Barrett's output is much improved over his earlier results. "We did another 50 acres two weeks ago and the yield is well up - about 24t/acre - and the sugars are still good, around 18-18.5%. We've...

Posted to Over the Hedge - Arable Barometer farmers' diary (Weblog) by flutefriend on Tue, Nov 27 2007

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