Farm I did my gap year on had a separate sprayer fir beet !
Long time ago though when such luxury was probably affordable (there were x6 of us on 1500ac !)
I'll bet beet was £30/t and cost less to grow back then, when God was a boy
Farm I did my gap year on had a separate sprayer fir beet !
Long time ago though when such luxury was probably affordable (there were x6 of us on 1500ac !)
I'll bet beet was £30/t and cost less to grow back then, when God was a boy
Spraying a fifth of my farm every week certainly does clash with my cereal spraying and fert workload. Probably an opportunity to spray less and use more expensive beet herbicides but the virus yellows situation isn’t going to help reduce sprayer passes.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?
It was later than that last year IIRC. BS want to leave it until after the window for sowing osr instead has passed as that's the main threat to their beet area for margin, then they are only competing with oats, beans & other spring breaks.
Like you have said before it’s hard to stop something when you have rent to pay. Luckily most of us will have a good proportion on the 3 year 22.50 deal. But again as you say it would cost BS to stop as well.Given how many of us are dropping osr, then that plan may not work. They just sit in the bs office, smiling and saying "remember Peterborough" when growers and nfu essentially rid them of half the growers and left only the hyper efficient and those who's "grandad first grew it in 1930" brigade who are happy farming just for the fun.
£17 a ton? That's funny. Just all stop. It will cost bs more to lay off the staff and cleanup the factories than paying you a few £ more.
Spraying a fifth of my farm every week certainly does clash with my cereal spraying and fert workload. Probably an opportunity to spray less and use more expensive beet herbicides but the virus yellows situation isn’t going to help reduce sprayer passes.
I don’t think those are permitted optionsFor those who have contracts at £22.5o, can you sell those back to British sugar for a fiver a ton now, or have another grower sell you their c beet for £18 a ton and take a profit now?
Tricky. Hence BS offer less money.Fair enough. So, if you didn't grow beet at £17, what else would you do that made money and didn't affect your workload as much? More of your other crops/break crops?
Not far off doubleSecret
Consistantly our best margin by a good distance (until last year!). Otherwise we wouldn't put up with the harvest/soil issues.Not a crop I’ve very grown (to far from factories) but how does the margin compare to wheat ?
It needs to be!Consistantly our best margin by a good distance (until last year!). Otherwise we wouldn't put up with the harvest/soil issues.
What am I supposed to take from that?