Beet '22

[robbie]

All guardian airs? Or just 100-120? We spray everything with 150 guardian airs (blue ones) and never had any noteworthy issues(?). I’m interested if it is the lower rate ones as I’m considering coming down to 120…

I use GA blue for cereals all year round and apart from catching the odd one on the ground and either scuffing it or breaking it I don't have to touch them.

For beet my default is yellow flat fan but will swap to lilac GA for iffy weather. I leave the filters in for yellow so that probably helps but again I've never had any bother with them at all.
I usually run them at 120 but will drop to 100 but that increases the speed which I'm not keen on.

I think it's just @Flat 10 Heath Robinson sprayer!!!!

 

[alomy75]

I had a set of the blue b*******ds and the money i spent replacing with billericays was well spent.

Oh dear! What sprayer? We put liquid N through our Bateman so it regularly gets an internal de-crudding session probably helps

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Well after about 50mm of rain in a week the sugar is growing out of the beet nicely now

 

[Rookie]

Newark factory has started processing.
Initial Sugar's are apparently averaging about 16.3% which are less than where I thought they'd be with it being so dry.
Not started personally yet.

 

[robbie]

I would guess a fair bit of sugar has been used to grow new canopy since the summer drought.

 

[Flat 10]

Who has the beet moth detailed in the last bbro bulletin? Bad here. 100% of plants in some fields with growing point damaged. Worried about it going forward I think the yield insurance will be a necessity.

 

[Rookie]

Who has the beet moth detailed in the last bbro bulletin? Bad here. 100% of plants in some fields with growing point damaged. Worried about it going forward I think the yield insurance will be a necessity.

Not noticed it here, but I don't think Newark area is as bad as Norfolk/ Suffolk.
Is it sending the growing point rotten?

 

[robbie]

Only odd plants with mild damage and nothing that the plant can't and hasn't grown away from.
I gather it's very bad about and I'm a bit disappointed BBRO haven't been more publicly pro active in tracking it's spread/ affected areas ect

 

[Flat 10]

Not noticed it here, but I don't think Newark area is as bad as Norfolk/ Suffolk.
Is it sending the growing point rotten?

Yes. It’s not good

 

[Rookie]

Thought Newark factory sugar's weren't very exciting, but seem to be 1% above Wissington's initial opening results. (15.38% av.) Only based on a small handful of loads received as I believe they are only getting going.

 

[Flat 10]

Yes it was a tad depressing. Anecdotally from a drive the other day, yellows seemed bad in the fens from ely towards wisbech but looked a lot better up in lincs.

 

[DrWazzock]

I have what looks similar to beet moth damage but I don’t think it is beet moth. The centre of the crowns died I think due to heat. Can’t find any larvae. Then secondary rot set in. Some regrew leaves round the periphery of the crown. Some just died off. Always in thin areas on dry sand not shading one another, wilted flat and crown exposed to max heat. Not many. Just patches.
I’d call it Crown Roasting Intoducing Secondary Pathogens, (CRISP).

The lower section is the underside of the cut off crown. The centre of the crown leave stalks are blackened.

 

[DrWazzock]

This was a few weeks back. Some recovered. Some didn’t and completely rotted away.
Most of the field is fine (I hope) so not worried.

 

[DrWazzock]

We did have 40 deg c here and out on those bare patches of sand I’d say surface temperatures would be what, 50, maybe 60 deg c so damage is hardly a surprise.

 

[Breckland Boy]

This was a few weeks back. Some recovered. Some didn’t and completely rotted away.
Most of the field is fine (I hope) so not worried.
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I have beet like both pics. Not just this year but most years.

 

[spin cycle]

that's that root root thing where you find odd dead black beet in field

 

[DrWazzock]

I have beet like both pics. Not just this year but most years.

We do possibly but more this year due to extreme heat. And I’ve probably been more vigilant looking for beet moth. Haven’t found any beet moth or larvae.

 

[DrWazzock]

that's that root root thing where you find odd dead black beet in field

I reckon it is. It’s a secondary thing brought on by heat damage to the crowns in my opinion. Like any other damage it lets the rot in . More of this year here due to high temps. Not really an important issue.

 

[alomy75]

I reckon it is. It’s a secondary thing brought on by heat damage to the crowns in my opinion. Like any other damage it lets the rot in . More of this year here due to high temps. Not really an important issue.

Sure it’s not Boron deficiency?

 

[Hindsight]

Sure it’s not Boron deficiency?

If it's like what I have seen on drought sands near Stamford just odd isolated plants every 20 metres or so. Boron deficiency I would expect to see more widescale effects on plants.