Beet yields 2020

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
No different to one piece of ergot in a load of grain = rejection.
It isn't though isn't it? BS have weigh bridge tickets for all dirty beet that come in. I'm sure they have all the weighbridge tickets for the dirt and stone they sell. This would give them the tonnes of clean beet. If this figure wasn't close to the tonnes of clean beet paid to growers at the end of the season we should get a rebate. You would have thought NFU sugar could work that out :banghead:
 

Breckland Boy

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Breckland
It isn't though isn't it? BS have weigh bridge tickets for all dirty beet that come in. I'm sure they have all the weighbridge tickets for the dirt and stone they sell. This would give them the tonnes of clean beet. If this figure wasn't close to the tonnes of clean beet paid to growers at the end of the season we should get a rebate. You would have thought NFU sugar could work that out :banghead:
It's been a bug bear of mine for years.
One stone in the sample can add 10% to the dirt tare. But it doesn't represent the whole load in general.
Any sampling anomaly that is significantly different to the average dirt tare should be changed at the end of season to reflect the growers average dirt tare.
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
I have mentioned this before but what pisses me off the most about BS is the bloody sampling. Got done on 1 sample applied to 5 loads out of 28 for stones off the pad. Ring make a complaint oh that's fine we will get it sorted. Get an email back saying that no decision can be made until I have lifted some more beet. WTAF all the rest of the beet is off different land and different pads, so how will that help? Are they really that stupid? I don't want to have an argument with them but they are doing my head in. probably because its run by the useless NFU :banghead: :banghead: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

It isn't though isn't it? BS have weigh bridge tickets for all dirty beet that come in. I'm sure they have all the weighbridge tickets for the dirt and stone they sell. This would give them the tonnes of clean beet. If this figure wasn't close to the tonnes of clean beet paid to growers at the end of the season we should get a rebate. You would have thought NFU sugar could work that out :banghead:
@Flat 10 don't worry I recon all the extra revenue the NFUs are getting from the self congratulatory levy increase will all be put to good use making sure tares are all far and correct..........oh wait a minute who the fudge am I kidding!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
 

Mixedupfarmer

Member
Location
Norfolk
It isn't though isn't it? BS have weigh bridge tickets for all dirty beet that come in. I'm sure they have all the weighbridge tickets for the dirt and stone they sell. This would give them the tonnes of clean beet. If this figure wasn't close to the tonnes of clean beet paid to growers at the end of the season we should get a rebate. You would have thought NFU sugar could work that out :banghead:
Would be interesting to know how much sugar each factory actually produces compared to what it pays for. I wonder if NFU sugar have this info?
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Would be interesting to know how much sugar each factory actually produces compared to what it pays for. I wonder if NFU sugar have this info?
Its not difficult to get surely? i think they do as thats why we now get paid for crowns. I still think they need to reconcile the dirty beet in v dirt out and paid for clean beet v actual clean beet.
 

Bill Turtle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Essex
Penultimate Beet harvest.
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Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
I have not gone through the 70 odd pages here, buti understood all these these things were balanced out at the end of the year. Further balancing payments are made for issues which come up a few years later.
We certainly received payments from ten years previous, a few years back
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Bury is on a go slow for the next 5 days for maintenance.

Have the maintenance team actually done any work to the factory's while they've been closed for the last 6 months or have they just walked around scratching there watsits and drinking tea.🤬🤦
Finally cleared the shed of 200 tonnes that’s been in there for 3 weeks. Remarkably sugar was still well over 17% though violet root rot was making its presence known. Dirt 2.5% over cleaner. Dried out so it shelled off well. 400 tonnes still in the ground. A bit wet now so leaving it for a bit. It’s been painfully slow getting it into Newark and my haulier has a lot to clear so I’m not rushing it. Just hoping it doesn’t get boggy.
 

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