British Sugar and BBRO’s Beet 09 event in Peterborough brought all the sugar beet industry together under one roof, and featured a wide range of technical presentations covering nutrition, soil management, crop establishment and modern machinery developments.

Read our reports from the event.

• Fertiliser recommendations updated
• Self-propelled cleaner-loader system gaining popularity
• Autumn cultivations key for good seed-bed preparation
• Strip tillage shows potential
• Xbeet advantage confirmed in trials
• Sugar beet bolting: Lesson learned from 2008
• New strain of rhizomania virus suspected as resistance fails