21 March 2024 New sensors to support irrigation strategies Arable, vegetable and fruit producers will now be able to more accurately manage water levels…
13 March 2024 Apply foliar nutrition to accelerate sugar beet establishment Early applications of foliar nutrition could be key to helping this year’s sugar beet crops…
10 December 2023 Arbitration beckons with sugar beet contract deadlock A costly arbitration process now awaits with no agreement on the 2024/25 sugar beet contract,…
23 November 2023 British sugar back to contract negotiations British Sugar has announced a temporarily pause in contracting and seed ordering for the 2024/25…
7 November 2023 Defra direction on sugar negotiations delights NFU NFU Sugar is delighted with the government’s direction that negotiations with British Sugar to set…
3 November 2023 NFU outraged at British Sugar price offer NFU Sugar chair Michael Sly told sugar growers the NFU is ‘outraged’ after British Sugar…
13 September 2023 New seed treatment to help ‘kickstart’ sugar beet germination A new sugar beet seed treatment specifically developed UK conditions boosts germination claims Germains Seed…
1 August 2023 Beware Cercospora risk in sugar beet Darryl Shailes, root products technical manager with crop production specialist Hutchinsons, highlights why Cercospora is…
17 July 2023 Beet the rust threat Sugar beet crops are coming under intense disease pressure, with conditions for rust infection now…
10 July 2023 High bolting season gives Sesvanderhave valuable information This year’s sugar beet crop could see some of highest levels of bolters for many…