I’m doubling up from 20ha to 46...compared to linseed and peas which actually cost us money to grow...it ticks a lot of boxes. Beet genetics are giving us 5% extra each year but you can’t just dip in and out...it really does respond to careful management throughout the season and treating like a mainstream crop rather than a break
Sugar Beet have been the cornerstone crop in our area and have performed well giving a reasonable bottom line.
Many growers are cutting back their acreages because of the price reduction and the threat of virus yellows. The damage we are doing to the land with the far too heavy machinery is a strong reason for scaling back in my case, it seems that machinery manufacturers give little regard to how heavy these monstrous machines are becoming.
World sugar prices are depressed at the moment not helped by the media making sugar the new tobbacco.
ABF, the parent company of British Sugar will only produce sugar whilst it is profitable and although considerable investment has and still is being made at their remaining factories to gain efficiency they will not continue to produce if heavy losses leave no positive profits.
It’s a long time since I’ve seen virus yellows but I can assure you however much care and attention you languish on the beet crop VY will knacker your yield.
Ring your fields man.I’ve made a mistake with my contract for this growing season, I’ve got approx 300t quota too much. Is it possible to alter a contract?
Ring your fields man.
I have a lady too. We were friends until she messed up my seed orderI have spoken to my fields “person”
All sorted hopefully.
I’ve got some left over from last year if you want to collect
That will be seed with a standard seed treatment presumably.