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Has anyone heard an indication on next years beet price?
I mentioned it on the other beet thread sometime last week. I've heard from a reasonably good source it could be, wait for it.........£17/t
It seems an annual past time, sugar beet growers complain about the price, shout about how they're going to drop it after growing for it 150 years, then plant the same area they always have.
With OSR being even less attractive, what else are you going to grow?
British Sugar need to make money, if they pay to much for their raw product then no one will be growing it in a few years time.
Put yourself in BS shoes, you'd do the same, pay just enough to keep your raw material being produced.
And BS do the same, put themselves in the growers shoes, how much do we need to keep growing it?
Who growers or BS?Alternatively, they could do a half decent job of marketing their end product.
SecretNot a crop I’ve very grown (to far from factories) but how does the margin compare to wheat ?
Looks ok until you take into account harvesting costs, soil and track damage and difficulty y of establishing following crop.Not a crop I’ve very grown (to far from factories) but how does the margin compare to wheat ?
Looks ok until you take into account harvesting costs, soil and track damage and difficulty y of establishing following crop.
Just harvesting. Easy enough to drill spray etcCertainly a big barrier to no till
Being geared up to grow it probably has a big effect on fished cost structure as well I guess ? Although many use contractors for the entire job I guess ?
Just harvesting. Easy enough to drill spray etc
Cultivation / Drilling / spraying clashes with cereal workload needing extra labour / machinery capacity maybe ?
Not really unless you've got a big area of spring combinables. For most growers it's only a small % of the farm anyway. For me the biggest pain was washing SUs out of the sprayer before going onto beet. Oh, and the soil destruction when lifting late & wet then having to do remedial subsoiling after a mediocre late sown wheat crop. Am I selling it well enough here?
They won’t tell us until mid August is my guess