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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

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Harvest and storage

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SUGAR BEET

Trial looks at how to make sugar beet more sustainable

Growing sugar beet with a living clover mulch is being put to the test in a long-term trial at Elveden Farms in Suffolk to see if the crop’s sustainability metrics…

WEED MANAGEMENT

Nutsedge findings point to gap in invasive weed defences

Yellow nutsedge may still be a relatively unknown weed, but its appearance on a handful of farms is highlighting a much bigger problem: the UK has no coordinated system for…

ARABLE

What could the future of crop protection look like?

Biologicals, breeding and better evaluation and co-ordination of multiple farm technologies will be three important building blocks of future crop protection strategies for disease control, as the industry continues its…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Endophytic grass shows promise against sugar beet aphids

Using endophytic grasses to manage virus yellows infections in sugar beet is showing promising results from an Adopt project involving Morley Farms and the British Beet Research Organisation. Endophytic grasses…

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