Sugar Beet 2020

[Mixedupfarmer]

One near here too. BS biggest grower

Perhaps they found some old seed in the back of the shed to drill?

 

[Flat 10]

Perhaps they found some old seed in the back of the shed to drill?

I wondered. Field the other side is ravaged by virus

 

[Mixedupfarmer]

I wondered. Field the other side is ravaged by virus

I would be genuinely interesting to know.

 

[Flat 10]

I would be genuinely interesting to know.

Joking aside I really doubt it’s neonic seed.

 

[shakerator]

I wonder if growers that sprayed really early post em had better results ?

 

[Honest john]

There is 1 field of beet towards spalding off A17 that is completely green not one virus yellow

need to know what magic has been done

PX Farms is my guess.
@James Peck.

 

[robbie]

Sprayed my beet today, started at 4 and finished before the sun broke out at lunch time.
I could just start to find the odd bit of mildew and the odd rust pustule on a leaf or two.

They dont look too bad, there'll be something there come harvest but they could do with a good drink but not for a week until I've finished combining.

 

[Flat 10]

Sprayed my beet today, started at 4 and finished before the sun broke out at lunch time.
I could just start to find the odd bit of mildew and the odd rust pustule on a leaf or two.View attachment 899498
They dont look too bad, there'll be something there come harvest but they could do with a good drink but not for a week until I've finished combining.

Very jealous of those. Mine are an embarrassment.

 

[redbaron]

There is 1 field of beet towards spalding off A17 that is completely green not one virus yellow

need to know what magic has been done

If it's the one near me I'm thinking of (nth side of A17?), it was drilled really late...mid-end May if I recall.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Will Verimark be the answer band sprayed at 4 leaf stage?

 

[Hindsight]

France to ease pesticide ban for sugar beet to curb crop losses

2 MIN READ

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government will propose lifting a ban on certain pesticides blamed for harming bees to protect sugar beet crops that have been ravaged by insects this year, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday.

The government plans to support a legislative amendment in parliament later this year to exempt sugar beet for up to three years from a general ban on neonicotinoids, the ministry said in a statement following a meeting with sugar industry representatives.

Sugar beet growers blame the ban on the neonicotinoid group of crop chemicals for insect attacks that could decimate yields this year and say this further threatens the French sugar sector after a price slump in recent years already led to factory closures.

“French sugar beet producers are facing an unprecedented crisis: the jaundice virus transmitted by aphids has developed massively across France’s growing regions and is going to impact heavily sugar beet production,” the ministry said.


Are the Tory Party your friends? They are the party of government. They are the Party that banned neonics. Time will tell I suppose.

 

[DrWazzock]

France to ease pesticide ban for sugar beet to curb crop losses

2 MIN READ

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government will propose lifting a ban on certain pesticides blamed for harming bees to protect sugar beet crops that have been ravaged by insects this year, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday.

The government plans to support a legislative amendment in parliament later this year to exempt sugar beet for up to three years from a general ban on neonicotinoids, the ministry said in a statement following a meeting with sugar industry representatives.

Sugar beet growers blame the ban on the neonicotinoid group of crop chemicals for insect attacks that could decimate yields this year and say this further threatens the French sugar sector after a price slump in recent years already led to factory closures.

“French sugar beet producers are facing an unprecedented crisis: the jaundice virus transmitted by aphids has developed massively across France’s growing regions and is going to impact heavily sugar beet production,” the ministry said.


Are the Tory Party your friends? They are the party of government. They are the Party that banned neonics. Time will tell I suppose.

Here they all have cloth ears when it comes to agriculture. The party will sacrifice agricultural production or any messy primary industry to please Mrs Brown at number 52 Acacia Avenue. Then they’ll wonder there is nothing of substance left to underpin their sacred service economy. Or maybe they think you can sustain on cutting one another’s hair, cooking each other meals, selling insurance and building beaver viewing visitor centres.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

France to ease pesticide ban for sugar beet to curb crop losses

2 MIN READ

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government will propose lifting a ban on certain pesticides blamed for harming bees to protect sugar beet crops that have been ravaged by insects this year, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday.

The government plans to support a legislative amendment in parliament later this year to exempt sugar beet for up to three years from a general ban on neonicotinoids, the ministry said in a statement following a meeting with sugar industry representatives.

Sugar beet growers blame the ban on the neonicotinoid group of crop chemicals for insect attacks that could decimate yields this year and say this further threatens the French sugar sector after a price slump in recent years already led to factory closures.

“French sugar beet producers are facing an unprecedented crisis: the jaundice virus transmitted by aphids has developed massively across France’s growing regions and is going to impact heavily sugar beet production,” the ministry said.


Are the Tory Party your friends? They are the party of government. They are the Party that banned neonics. Time will tell I suppose.

Sainsbury’s will be happy that their French supplied sugar wont run out.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

We’re out of Europe why can’t our government say the same for next season?

 

[Hindsight]

We’re out of Europe why can’t our government say the same for next season?

Was it anything to do with Europe. As I gather, some EU states that have a sugar beet industry have allowed a derogation in 2020 for the use of neonic seed treatments. So there was nothing stopping the UK government allowing neonic in 2020, although am happy to be corrected. I think you need to direct your question to the UK government - which for the past 10 years has been the Conservative Party and in particular the Rht Hon. Michael Gove as Defra minister. Cheers, Hey ho.

 

[Honest john]

Was it anything to do with Europe. As I gather, some EU states that have a sugar beet industry have allowed a derogation in 2020 for the use of neonic seed treatments. So there was nothing stopping the UK government allowing neonic in 2020, although am happy to be corrected. I think you need to direct your question to the UK government - which for the past 10 years has been the Conservative Party and in particular the Rht Hon. Michael Gove as Defra minister. Cheers, Hey ho.

I do wonder as we are still in a free market & our Supermarkets can buy French sugar if we can get our beet seed from Poland or France for AD of course.

Letter to send to our Tory MP.

 

[Hindsight]

I do wonder as we are still in a free market & our Supermarkets can buy French sugar if we can get our beet seed from Poland or France for AD of course.

Letter to send to our Tory MP.

You presumably buy seed from Poland. But to use it at the moment would be illegal if dressed with a seed treatment that is not approved by the UK regulatory authority. Your questions as I inferred in previous post shulf be directed to the UK government. especially now UK is on verge of leavin totally the EU and I if I understood correctly the campaigning from June 2016 leaving the EU was all about 'taking back control'.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I’m writing to the NFU

 

[spin cycle]

my agronomist came out thursday to look at my little patch of FB....'i'll bring some opera' he said......i didn't see him to talk to but saw his car in the distance.....no chem in store though ......perhaps he took one look at my yellowed beet (and slightly sheep nibbled)......and thought.....not enough leaf to warrant sprayin

 

[Honest john]

I’m writing to the NFU

I wrote to my MP & to Nr 10 Downing St, Mr Boris.