Beet yields 2020

[Mixedupfarmer]

Newark factory start of this week. Coal drier broken resulting in reduced slice. Should be sorted in the next 36-48 hours.
Factory has been going over a month now and still not running properly. Looks like a long campaign.

Pity BS didn't spend more of last years profits on factory maintenance and renewals. Again!

 

[thorpe]

Newark factory start of this week. Coal drier broken resulting in reduced slice. Should be sorted in the next 36-48 hours.
Factory has been going over a month now and still not running properly. Looks like a long campaign.

good luck no problems with our fodder beet procesors. ps the tares are excellant!

 

[davidroberts30]

good luck no problems with our fodder beet procesors. ps the tares are excellant!

I had just over 2 acre out sunday about 80ton
Guessing about 35t to the acre

 

[DrWazzock]

Well 120 tons of my beet had been in my shed for 12 days and went into the factory Monday. Results back say 17.98% sugar so despite the mild weather it’s not come to harm. Dirt 6% but not been over the cleaner loader as I thought I’d lose more to root tip break offs than the benefit of cleaning it.

 

[DrWazzock]

Massive yields this year. Currently doing 100 t/ ha on a field that hasn’t had beet since 1997 and been in grass 8 years.

 

[robbie]

Yields seem a bit more average around here. Most who've lifted have said average to just about average yields but one grower who I regard as a good grower only had 20t/AC

Sugars are mostly high 16s

 

[thorpe]

Yields seem a bit more average around here. Most who've lifted have said average to just about average yields but one grower who I regard as a good grower only had 20t/AC

Sugars are mostly high 16s

lifting fodder beet , enormous yield no tares , dont know the sugars but the beast are licking the troughs!

 

[Daniel]

Our first 9ha did 81t/ha adjusted.

 

[Flat 10]

Well 120 tons of my beet had been in my shed for 12 days and went into the factory Monday. Results back say 17.98% sugar so despite the mild weather it’s not come to harm. Dirt 6% but not been over the cleaner loader as I thought I’d lose more to root tip break offs than the benefit of cleaning it.

Gut feeling is you would have been better off cleaning it

 

[DrWazzock]

Gut feeling is you would have been better off cleaning it

The cleaner has quite a coarse chain under the hopper and always seems to break a lot of root tips off. It really needs the closer spaced chain in there at £££. I really hate cleaning up the heap of waste which seems to be more broken root than soil, plus there is the hassle of setting it up so its been going straight over the side at the moment. Will set up the cleaner loader for the next session but sometimes I have found the returns are no better. The old Cyclone cleans it pretty thoroughly especially on dry sand though I agree that the cleaner would take a bit more out not least because the roots dry in the shed and a bit more soil comes off. Loading with a grain bucket doesn't help.

 

[DrWazzock]

The cleaner loader has to sit in the shed doorway due to small yard. The lorry arrives at random really. So setting it up and taking it down again is a pallaver. We really need another door in the shed to leave it permanently set up. But it all costs ££££. So dunno. Carry on on a shoe string. Not ideal but would we ever the see the return on capital investments in the beet enterprise - like a decent spacious outdoor pad. Unlikely.

 

[Flat 10]

You moan about lack of infrastructure but the luxury of having a shed for beet!!!!

 

[Honest john]

For us beet movement is very slow. My haulier is running 4days instead of 6 days as grower numbers are down.
Still beet sitting for a month at this time of yr is not ideal.
As for contract pee'd off with BS’s games.
undecided as yet.

 

[robbie]

For us beet movement is very slow. My haulier is running 4days instead of 6 days as grower numbers are down.
Still beet sitting for a month at this time of yr is not ideal.
As for contract pee'd off with BS’s games.
undecided as yet.

It's odd but a good few growers I've spoke to seem very undecided about weather to grow beet next year or not.

I think BS may be in for a shock, they seem to think there latest offer is the best thing since sliced bread but it seems it's still considered too little too late for some

 

[DrWazzock]

It's odd but a good few growers I've spoke to seem very undecided about weather to grow beet next year or not.

I think BS may be in for a shock, they seem to think there latest offer is the best thing since sliced bread but it seems it's still considered too little too late for some

The new price doesn’t make it an easy decision either way. Not enough for an easy “yes”, but not so little for a definitive “no”.
Here I only have quota for 520 tonnes. I’m thinking that to justify modernising my kit I would need to increase my quota to nearer 800 tonnes to get anything like a reasonable payback on the oiutlay. But we are on the outer edge of the haulage limit.
Carrying on with a knackered single row machine isn’t really sensible. But it might do “just one more year” that’s if it it makes it to the end of this year. It doesn’t owe me much anyway.

 

[neilo]

Massive yields this year. Currently doing 100 t/ ha on a field that hasn’t had beet since 1997 and been in grass 8 years.

One last gift from the livestock enterprises you've binned?

 

[DrWazzock]

One last gift from the livestock enterprises you've binned?

Not binned. Temporarily suspended. Just waiting for replacements to get back to sensible prices and for my brothers kids to take the livestock job on part tine or whatever, maybe. Presently looking for some store lambs for a couple of acres of mediocre stubble turnips, poor hay and left over barley. 7.5 acres grass as well but at £80 a head will we make anything? I think we’d will actually. I really should be out now ploughing ex beet land to get wheat in. But sod it. Weekend off. I could maximise output if I worked every hour but more to life.

 

[Flat 10]

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

 

[Rookie]

BS tell you sample results applied to no sample loads are random. It always seems if you get a bad load, it is added to many.
Never seems to work that way with a high sugar/ low dirt load. Always in their favour!!

 

[Flat 10]

BS tell you sample results applied to no sample loads are random. It always seems if you get a bad load, it is added to many.
Never seems to work that way with a high sugar/ low dirt load. Always in their favour!!

I’m happy that bit is truly random/done properly. It’s how representative the actual sample is of the load