3rd and final lift (thank god!). Final lift was 50t/ha. Sugars now better too!
How come you can have all yours out early? Nearer 20 than 2mm here so far. Badly needed…..
you would... it would certainly pay better. But I have a contract with British Sugar that I have to fulfil,.
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that's an incredible result this year. Especially if no irrigation. Will be top 5% I imagine.
Neighbour has done mid 70's first lift. His moth ravaged and droughtier land to come.
Couple of farms not far from me on the fen have fields that have done over 100t/ha this year, first time for them
Wow that's early and surprising!
irrigated?
No, but both good farmers and well bodied soils
Complain with photos. It's a real bugbear of mine. I don't think it's fraudulent as others claim on behalf of BS, rather unrepresentative samples. I have expressed my displeasure so regularly that i have been invited to the tarehouse at newark but haven't made the time to do so. Sadly unless we make a fuss nothing will change.Anybody find the dirt tare results a bit random?
I’ve had from 3.4% to 9% without the cleaner loader and from 1.3 % to 6% with the cleaner loader. It looks clean in the heap and spotless when through the cleaner loader but the results seem inconsistent and all over the place. My sugars are 1% lower than the factory average though coming up a bit now. Load payment was £820 for my cleanest load but only £700 for the one they said was 9% dirt. £120 knock off. Transport allowance is included. I reckon I lose more root tips than soil using the cleaner loader but overall the average dirt seems less as you’d expect but struggle to believe it was 6% for one load through the cleaner. Maybe they found a rotten beet and included it in the dirt tare but we have been picking off.
Agree it’s not deliberate fraud. I think it’s just a poor and inconsistent sampling system. I dint know whether they guide the sampler to a particular spot on the load or whether it goes to a random point. That might make some difference if it’s to where the bucket or cleaner loader fills it. We have mostly sand here but there are small areas of real clay that might influence the dirt tare unduly if they hit some roots off that patch in a load but overall I’d say we are very clean. Annoying when you’ve tried your best. To get the factory average that low I reckon some folk must be peeling them I’m 1 percent over the factory average dirt tare and 1 percent under the sugar.
When loading a lorry via elevator, does the dirt fall to the sides or sit in the middle.
