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That seems to be the consensus of my agronomist and anyone else I have spoken to.
Not much beet in your area? Virgin land?
That seems to be the consensus of my agronomist and anyone else I have spoken to.
Sounds like BS have applied for the use of neonics ( in a different form ) for next years seed. Will only be available for sugar crop, not fodder or energy beet.
That’s what I heard on our local radio farming news this morning.is for no fodder beet use
Funny thing is though when we grew a few acres of untreated fodder beet for the sheep during our break from sugar beet between 2008 and 2016 we didn’t have an agronomist and never really thought about aphids and virus and some years we got 35 ton per acre, some years 20 tons and we just put it down to being “one of those things” and it never seemed to worry us. Looking back it was most likely virus but sometimes ignorance is bliss.is for no fodder beet use
is for no fodder beet use
Well done. Rest of mine will have to do very well to drag the average up to those levels.72 tonnes per ha here final scores on the doors. About 14 tonnes per ha down on our average. Sugar averaged about 17.5. Dirt 6%, which was high for us due to cleaner loader stuck behind broken down tractor in shed for half the campaign.
I'm satisfied with that this year.
Yes and with a lower application rate.The application for emergency use is solely for Beet grown for Sugar.
How many beet growers are there? I signed itI've just has a email through about the letter being sent to the secretary of state about reinstating neonics and I was a bit shocked to see only 1025 growers had signed it.
Everyone is belle acheing about the beet job(rightly so) but why haven't more growers signed it. The only way for a change is to make as much noise about it as possible
I signed it and I am not even growing next year!I've just has a email through about the letter being sent to the secretary of state about reinstating neonics and I was a bit shocked to see only 1025 growers had signed it.
Everyone is belle acheing about the beet job(rightly so) but why haven't more growers signed it. The only way for a change is to make as much noise about it as possible