- Location
- West Suffolk
Well they can’t have much of the seed if it goes that quickly?!
what do you all go for first? The most expensive or the cheapest?
what do you all go for first? The most expensive or the cheapest?
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Sugar Beet 2020
- Thread starter Laggard
- Start date
- Location
- Lincs / Notts
Looking at BS explanation, With the new system (paid for whole of beet), we need to go for max root yield and not necessarily max adjusted yield as going forward it seems that if your beet is much above 17% sugar you will start to loose out. Historically the higher the sugar the more adjusted tonnage you get paid for. However I stand to be corrected.
As for seed, at the moment I don't think it matters which seed dressing you choose with regards to availability, its just varieties.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
When it comes to seed ,In the good old days before the world went mad. I would use the open days to look to see which varieties had the biggest,greenest most lush canopy and then investigate them varieties more for bolting yield ect and then either dismiss them or choose them.
A few years back, I think elsoms or beta seeds or what ever they called themselves had some really big canopied varieties about. I think they were goya and then valeska from memory and they always did well for us.
I've probably got it all wrong and should be choosing varieties by some other method but it works for me.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Well I still can’t work out how to enter data on the mybritishsugar website? I go into contracts and change it to 21/22, but no way can I input, there’s no seed page either?
There’s a scrolling banner on the home page that says contracts can now be completed online click on the to do box below, but there just isn’t one there?
Have rung BS helpline twice today but just get their answer phone.
Frustrating!
There’s a scrolling banner on the home page that says contracts can now be completed online click on the to do box below, but there just isn’t one there?
Have rung BS helpline twice today but just get their answer phone.
Frustrating!
Did you get sorted @Sonoftheheir ? Did mine yesterday, quite painless. Declined 10% of my tonnage but reduced area 20% so won’t reach quota. What’s everyone else done area wise? Seed situation not as bad as feared, couple good varieties left.
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Is anyone else suffering with cercospora? Seems to be everywhere, some leaves almost dead with it. Apparently the stress from virus yellows and drought has exacerbated it?
Yes. Had it last year tooIs anyone else suffering with cercospora? Seems to be everywhere, some leaves almost dead with it. Apparently the stress from virus yellows and drought has exacerbated it?
Hindsight
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Is anyone else suffering with cercospora? Seems to be everywhere, some leaves almost dead with it. Apparently the stress from virus yellows and drought has exacerbated it?
Yep, it is widespread and as you observe quite damaging in several crops. This is the year sugar beet just keeps giving. It is trying its damndest to get itself dropped from the team sheet! Be interesting to find out from BBRO research if any or more likely the level of tolerance / resistance to the fungicides we use in beet. Not looking forward to seeing first field yields. Hey ho.
- Location
- South Lincs
That's good to hear. Though I doubt they'll be so good around here. We (all beet growers, not just us) have been really badly hit by yellows this year. It's really very bad. We sprayed for aphid 3 times too.
- Location
- South Lincs
Our neighbours have a field of which half has turned really black and looks almost dead. I am guessing this is what it is. A very bad year for beet around here sadly.Is anyone else suffering with cercospora? Seems to be everywhere, some leaves almost dead with it. Apparently the stress from virus yellows and drought has exacerbated it?
Plenty of yellows here too. Some fields sprayed twice (best looking and worst looking) others once (pretty bad) and 14ha not at all (second best block) makes you wonder if it’s worth spraying at all.
- Location
- Breckland
Heard of bad virus areas that are 13% sugar
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Much of the beet in my neck of lincs is yellow as custard.
- Location
- West Suffolk
There’s hardly any top on ours and the roots are as big as turnips/parsnips/red beet.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Yes, I got through to BS eventually! For some reason I thought I did ours online last time, but couldn’t have done. We wasn’t signed up, thus it did not show the”to do” box on the Home Screen! All done now, risking one more year just to give them a chance.
Mixedupfarmer
Member
- Location
- Norfolk
Same here. Think we going to graze the worst field with the ewes
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I’m out now. My manager phoned up and asked why. Being a polite person I rambled on about personal circumstances, business rationalisation etc but really intended to say
1) that twit Michael Gove taking the seed dressing off and
2) how would you like your salary frozen at same level since 1982
3) loss of Desmedipham , Betanal max pro.
1) that twit Michael Gove taking the seed dressing off and
2) how would you like your salary frozen at same level since 1982
3) loss of Desmedipham , Betanal max pro.
- Location
- East yorks
Anyone heard the french are getting the dressing back for 2021 as they have had it bad this year so it’s now an exceptional circumstance so they can reissue it 
Maybe some of our french members can confirm ?
Maybe some of our french members can confirm ?