Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Not much beet in your area? Virgin land?
Beet yields 2020
- Thread starter phr49
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Not much beet in your area? Virgin land?
- Location
- Essex
Not virgin land but a fairly long rotation and not that many neighbours growing the crop.
76masseyman
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- Lincolncestershire
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.
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
76masseyman
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- Lincolncestershire
That’s what I heard on our local radio farming news this morning.is for no fodder beet use
- Location
- Lincolnshire
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.
I'm satisfied with that this year.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
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.
Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
The application for emergency use is solely for Beet grown for Sugar.
Well done. Rest of mine will have to do very well to drag the average up to those levels.
two-cylinder
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- Cambridge
Yes and with a lower application rate.
Do you have a ground classification system in the UK?
In germany we have one with 100 being the best and 0 the worst but the worst grounds that are farmed are about 10.
Grew sugar/fodder beet hybrid energarci this year for diary and it yielded about 72 tonnes/ha on a ground with 25 points and 820mm of rain this year so far.
Three times herbicid (one to less) one time insecticid, no funghi)
No neonics is bothering but not as bad as in france and the south for example as they have problems with the "yellow" Virus due to insects.
In germany we have one with 100 being the best and 0 the worst but the worst grounds that are farmed are about 10.
Grew sugar/fodder beet hybrid energarci this year for diary and it yielded about 72 tonnes/ha on a ground with 25 points and 820mm of rain this year so far.
Three times herbicid (one to less) one time insecticid, no funghi)
No neonics is bothering but not as bad as in france and the south for example as they have problems with the "yellow" Virus due to insects.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
I asume being in Germany you see less aphid problems because of the colder weather you have, whenever ive been in germany I'm always fascinated by the dry biting cold winter weather that seems to last not odd could days we see to get.
- Location
- Essex
In England and Wales land is usually classified from 1 to 5. 1 being the best and most versatile. 5 would be the side of a mountain suitable only for grazing. It includes considerations of rainfall and topography.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
Were all grade 3 around here..... until I want to buy or rent some then it's all grade 1
two-cylinder
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- Cambridge
Land classification grade is not an accurate predictor of potential output.
First 50 acre just gone in 64 ton 16,4 sugar 
light flinty sand and one patch of heavy shire
Hope 47 acre what lifted yesterday does better , should do it’s off some nice silt
light flinty sand and one patch of heavy shire Hope 47 acre what lifted yesterday does better , should do it’s off some nice silt
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
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
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
How many beet growers are there? I signed it
Mixedupfarmer
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- Norfolk
I signed it and I am not even growing next year!
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
I signed it 