#Beet150

[Chris F]

Boost your beet yields and win a study tour to Chile!

#Beet150

This season, Bayer is running a #Beet150 competition for all sugar beet growers in the UK. Sugar beet yields have been steadily increasing over recent years, and some growers are getting close to 150t/ha (adjusted). The competition aims to see if anyone can beat 150t/ha or more adjusted yield across a contract area. There is also a prize for the grower who can produce highest yielding field lifted by 30th November 2018.

There will be advice along the way, with tips and tricks to help you make those little changes to raise your yields.

So can we #Beet150?

Enter the Competition Now

What's the Prize?

Bayer is offering the winners places on a study tour to Chile in 2019, where the current sugar beet yield world record holder is based.

One trip is available for the grower with the top adjusted yield over an entire contract area in the 2018-19 season.

Another trip is available for the grower that achieves the highest yielding individual field lifted by 30 November 2018.

This competition is open to all British sugar beet growers regardless of contract size or location. So what are you waiting for? Enter now and #Beet150!

Please visit the Bayer Website to read all the terms and conditions.

https://cropscience.bayer.co.uk/beet150/

 

[Hindsight]

With hindsight should have been last year.

 

[Brisel]

This looks like a YEN for beet. Nice idea. Will there be much in the way of news articles on this @Chris F ?

 

[Chris F]

This looks like a YEN for beet. Nice idea. Will there be much in the way of news articles on this @Chris F ?

Just got off the phone to YEN as it happens!

Hopefully we will see plenty of news content, it would also make a great thread if a farmer talked about how he was going to approach the challenge during the season. We also said this about some of this years YEN entrants too.

Anyone spring to mind @Brisel ?

 

[Brisel]

Lots of eastern beet growers in here. Would it be worth starting a thread to call them all up then move it into the YEN section? It might get more viewers into that sub forum. Just an idea. I haven't had much to do with beet since I left Lincolnshire 7 years ago.

I'm not a YEN member but I've been following what they do for a while. The nearest participant is my local AHDB Monitor Farm.

 

[Chris F]

Lots of eastern beet growers in here. Would it be worth starting a thread to call them all up then move it into the YEN section? It might get more viewers into that sub forum. Just an idea. I haven't had much to do with beet since I left Lincolnshire 7 years ago.

I'm not a YEN member but I've been following what they do for a while. The nearest participant is my local AHDB Monitor Farm.

Sounds like a great idea, would you do the honours? We are on the YEN Steering Committee (I think Bayer are too) and I'm sure they would be really happy with this.

 

[Farmer T]

There already is a sugar Beet YEN competition set up- the Beet Yield Competition run by BBRO. It’s only in its first year but it’s looking to do what YEN is doing for cereals and OSR.

You get free soil samples, drone pictures of your field and even a free rain gauge! The BBRO have a theoretical yield based on soil, weather, drilling date, Etc.

However the winners get a trip to Spain not Chile! Why not enter both?

 

[Devil's advocate]

What is the world record for fodder beet yeild?. Seems very popular locally with dairy farmers. Often clean land with high soil organic matter & higher rainfall than the sugar beet heartlands.

 

[mushnt grummmble]

Can i ask what adjusted yeild is?

 

[Mike Abram]

Thanks everyone for the interest in #Beet150.

I'll try to answer the questions above, below!

With hindsight should have been last year.

Ha! It is beginning to look like this year growing very high yields might be more challenging with the slow start. But whoever is signed up by the closing date and grows the largest yield in each category will be our winners (even if they don't #Beet150)!

This looks like a YEN for beet. Nice idea. Will there be much in the way of news articles on this @Chris F ?

We're definitely planning content around #Beet150 during the season.

What is the world record for fodder beet yeild?. Seems very popular locally with dairy farmers. Often clean land with high soil organic matter & higher rainfall than the sugar beet heartlands.

Good question, and not one I know the answer to. But "wet" yields of fodder beet are usually higher than sugar beet because of the higher water content. Still it would be going some to beat the 197t/ha of "dirty" beet that Barbara Becker in Chile grew for her world sugar beet record.

Can i ask what adjusted yeild is?

Adjusted yield takes into account sugar content. It's calculated by multiplying clean yield (what's delivered to the factory minus the dirt tare minus a fixed crown tare) by the sugar content (standardised to 16%). So if the sugar content is over 16% the adjusted yield increases compared with the clean yield, and if it is below 16% it reduces.

Hope that all makes sense (and I have the adjusted yield calculation right!).

Thanks!

Mike Abram
PR & Social media manager, Bayer.

 

[Brisel]

Sounds like a great idea, would you do the honours? We are on the YEN Steering Committee (I think Bayer are too) and I'm sure they would be really happy with this.

Er, I don't grow beet anymore & would rather not look like a TFF staff member by creating that thread. I don't wish to shirk a challenge but it would be better coming from you or Clive I think.

 

[News]

Meet the entrants to the #Beet150 competition!

25 growers from East Anglia, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and beyond have entered the #Beet150 competition. These entrants will soon be competing to win a study trip to Chile and learning more about growing beet and increasing yield performance along the way.

https://cropscience.bayer.co.uk/beet150/