Sugar beet model to be amended for 2025
Following an in-depth review and feedback from growers, NFU Sugar and British Sugar have announced…
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New sensors to support irrigation strategies
Arable, vegetable and fruit producers will now be able to more accurately manage water levels…
Apply foliar nutrition to accelerate sugar beet establishment
Early applications of foliar nutrition could be key to helping this year’s sugar beet crops…
Arbitration beckons with sugar beet contract deadlock
A costly arbitration process now awaits with no agreement on the 2024/25 sugar beet contract,…
British sugar back to contract negotiations
British Sugar has announced a temporarily pause in contracting and seed ordering for the 2024/25…
Defra direction on sugar negotiations delights NFU
NFU Sugar is delighted with the government’s direction that negotiations with British Sugar to set…
NFU outraged at British Sugar price offer
NFU Sugar chair Michael Sly told sugar growers the NFU is ‘outraged’ after British Sugar…
New seed treatment to help ‘kickstart’ sugar beet germination
A new sugar beet seed treatment specifically developed UK conditions boosts germination claims Germains Seed…
Beware Cercospora risk in sugar beet
Darryl Shailes, root products technical manager with crop production specialist Hutchinsons, highlights why Cercospora is…
Beet the rust threat
Sugar beet crops are coming under intense disease pressure, with conditions for rust infection now…