- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Has anyone heard an indication on next years beet price?
Sugar beet price 2020
- Thread starter Banana Bar
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- the brecks norfolk
I mentioned it on the other beet thread sometime last week. I've heard from a reasonably good source it could be, wait for it.........£17/t
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Had almost finalised my cropping for next year, need to look at it again without beet if that’s the case.
- Location
- Suffolk
surely that can't be right - that will lead to factory closures? Glad I signed a 3yr deal at £22.50!
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
What good are August price announcements? We should be being told by now. I don’t think the growers are militant enough, British Sugar is nothing without its producer base.
We could do with a new (to us) beet hoe, but it’s hard even to justify a few £ks investment in beet when British Sugar give so little confidence.
We could do with a new (to us) beet hoe, but it’s hard even to justify a few £ks investment in beet when British Sugar give so little confidence.
Hereward
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- Location
- Peterborough
It seems an annual past time, sugar beet growers complain about the price, shout about how they're going to drop it after growing for it 150 years, then plant the same area they always have.
With OSR being even less attractive, what else are you going to grow?
British Sugar need to make money, if they pay to much for their raw product then no one will be growing it in a few years time.
Put yourself in BS shoes, you'd do the same, pay just enough to keep your raw material being produced.
And BS do the same, put themselves in the growers shoes, how much do we need to keep growing it?
With OSR being even less attractive, what else are you going to grow?
British Sugar need to make money, if they pay to much for their raw product then no one will be growing it in a few years time.
Put yourself in BS shoes, you'd do the same, pay just enough to keep your raw material being produced.
And BS do the same, put themselves in the growers shoes, how much do we need to keep growing it?
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Alternatively, they could do a half decent job of marketing their end product.
Hereward
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- Location
- Peterborough
Who growers or BS?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
If only the growers could get together and tell bs what price they were going to sell for....
Secret
- Location
- Darlington
Get the NFU in on the job again...I`m sure they will be able to negotiate a lot lower price for you
Like last time
Like last timeLooks ok until you take into account harvesting costs, soil and track damage and difficulty y of establishing following crop.
Certainly a big barrier to no till
Being geared up to grow it probably has a big effect on fished cost structure as well I guess ? Although many use contractors for the entire job I guess ?
Just harvesting. Easy enough to drill spray etc
Cultivation / Drilling / spraying clashes with cereal workload needing extra labour / machinery capacity maybe ?
Not really unless you've got a big area of spring combinables. For most growers it's only a small % of the farm anyway. For me the biggest pain was washing SUs out of the sprayer before going onto beet. Oh, and the soil destruction when lifting late & wet then having to do remedial subsoiling after a mediocre late sown wheat crop. Am I selling it well enough here?
Not really unless you've got a big area of spring combinables. For most growers it's only a small % of the farm anyway. For me the biggest pain was washing SUs out of the sprayer before going onto beet. Oh, and the soil destruction when lifting late & wet then having to do remedial subsoiling after a mediocre late sown wheat crop. Am I selling it well enough here?
Farm I did my gap year on had a separate sprayer fir beet !
Long time ago though when such luxury was probably affordable (there were x6 of us on 1500ac !)
It was later than that last year IIRC. BS want to leave it until after the window for sowing osr instead has passed as that's the main threat to their beet area for margin, then they are only competing with oats, beans & other spring breaks.
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