New beet growers

It is no more of a blackgrass break than any other spring crop. The same graminicides are used with only one extra - ethofumesate. That is different chemistry but won’t be a silver bullet. Steerage hoes won’t grub up well tillered blackgrass plants but can kill smaller ones.

You’ll have to talk to current beet growers about the economics. Feed beans are £188/t for Nov 19 with premiums of £20-50/t. Peas min £230 max £280/t pre Xmas. Don’t forget to factor in soil and track damage from lifting beet in winter, plus a yield reduction from the following crop if its winter wheat and is sown late. What will it cost to transport the beet to Newark from you? Unless you’d grow decent spuds on the field I’d say beet was marginal vs other spring crops. All in my opinion, of course.

No new growers this year I was told , beet only suits a real mixed soil farm really we think , you've got to be prepared to lift late some years and have a spring crop to follow that will do well

Niteforce said:

We are currently growing beet . I was just digging to see if any body has managed to get a new contract with BS as i keep asking for a bit of extra tonnage but having no joy.

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We asked for some more and didn't get it either.

Tonnage must have gone early last year we took 2200 ton of which we were offered 3000

Niteforce said:

Asked last year also but no joy ,only wanting about 250 ton as we have balanced a lot of fields into equal sizes.

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