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SOME RAIN - MORE NEEDED (David's Digest)
Having complained about lack of rain in virtually every posting for the last several weeks I should, at least, express some satisfaction that we have had about 15mm this week. Its not enough and we need a fair bit more...
Sugar beet growers need positive price signals
When it comes to negotiating sugar beet prices, the NFU can hardly be accused of lacking ambition.
DESPITE INCREASED OFFER SUGAR BEET STILL MARGINAL (David's Digest)
Grower power, as expressed by around 300 of them representing some 14% of the national crop, who attended a meeting near Peterborough last month, forced British Sugar to re-open price negotiations with the NFU for 2009. The result has been...
HALF THE RAPE IN THE BARN OK (David's Digest)
Having been a dedicated sugar beet grower for most of my life I do not consider myself much of an expert on oil seed rape. Moreover the problems we had keeping pigeons off the crops last winter (not always successfully) persuaded me that...
GM SUGAR BEET ALLOW PRODUCTION TO CONTINUE IN U.S. (David's Digest)
One of the most memorable farms visited by the recent Farmers Weekly Farm Study Tour to America was to a 17,000 acre holding in Idaho. As mentioned in a previous blog the area is officially a desert with only 8-10 inches of...
SUGAR BEET GROWERS UNITE - BRITISH SUGAR RESPONDS (David's Digest)
Its been a long time coming and even now its not exactly exciting. But British Sugar, the monopoly processor of all the sugar beet grown in this contry, has finally accepted that if it wishes to have sufficient critical mass...
Sugar beet farming and cold weather - WABCG10 Blog
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January 2010 - Posts - WABCG10 Blog
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