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Download PDF Sugar beet variety traits were in the limelight at BBRO’s technical meetings last month, with a focus on how these may assist growers as the crop comes under new challenges brought on by a changing climate. CPM reports. We had a legacy effect from the neonics in 2019. By Lucy de la Pasture There’s a lot of discussion about mitigating the effects of climate change but very little on how crop production may be influenced over the next few decades. Prof Steve Dorling, a meteorologist at University of East Anglia (UEA), opened the meeting by giving an insight on the changes in weather patterns. He began by explaining the UK climate can be very variable. “Sometimes there’s not enough water and at others, there’s way too much water. This year it’s too much.” Rainfall for the autumn (Sept-Nov) last year amounted to 170% of the 30-year average in East/North East regions, with winter rainfall still be calculated it’s likely to add up to a very wet six months. That’s in line with the most recent climate change predictions, with drier and warmer springs and hotter summers expected to follow wetter and warmer autumns and winters. “Since 1950 the…
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