Archive Article: 2001/01/05

5 January 2001

Beating the freeze…frost between Christmas and New Year allowed Bartlow Estates machinery to lift the first sugar beet on MG & RA Ramseys heavy land at Slate Hall, near Haverhill, Suffolk. "Normally we lift there in the first few days of the campaign but it rained and we had not been able to get on since," says Bartlow farm manager John Goodchild. Prompt delivery to the Bury St Edmunds factory prevented frost damage causing clamping problems.