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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
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
Sugar beet harvest - will it be your last?

British Sugar is admitting it has been a bit of a shaky start to the lifting campaign this year. Probably not surprisingly growers, particularly in areas where the rain was excessive to say the least and affected growth, are trying to wait to harvest to add a few precious tonnes / ha to yield. Where...

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by Mike Abram - Arable Deputy Editor on Tue, Oct 2 2007

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