Know How / Sugar beet

Sugar beet is seeing a resurgence, however, sugar markets remain tough. Our sugar beet page aims to help you grow a more profitable crop in the face of rising inputs. This is your starting point for addressing challenges such as the rising pest and disease threat, keeping weeds in check, exploring precision farming and protecting the environment.

Key areas of focus:

  • Getting establishment right
  • Planning fungicide strategy
  • Assessing fertiliser requirements
  • Keeping on top of blackgrass

Latest sugar beet Know How articles

SUGAR BEET

Beet growers advised to focus on pests as rain arrives

Sugar beet growers are being advised to remain vigilant for pests and diseases after the first rainfall for several months, in a year when light land yields are expected to…

PEST MANAGEMENT

Beet army worm nearly wipes out drought-stricken crop

An influx of a novel caterpillar pest known as the beet army worm nearly wiped out Herefordshire farmer Ally Hunter Blair’s drought struck sugar beet. “It completely decimated the crop…

ARABLE

Changes Arable Insights farmers are making for next season

Defra’s recently published Farming Roadmap hasn’t created any immediate impetus for change on our Arable Insights farmer panel’s farms, indeed most of the panel in the week following publication hadn’t…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Beet trial shows benefit of elicitor on foliar disease control

Adding a plant health elicitor to sugar beet fungicide programmes can improve the plant’s own defences to significantly reduce foliar disease levels and improve green leaf area, according to Agrii…

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