Sugar beet plant breeder SESVanderHave UK will be selling seed direct to growers in future, following the changes made to the British Sugar Seed agreement between the NFU and British Sugar last year. Seed will be available direct...
The BASF fungicide Revysol (mefentrifluconazole) has been approved for use on sugar beet in the UK in time for the 2023 growing season, following its authorisation in other countries in Europe. The active was first authorised for use...
European agri-tech company Sencrop has opened its first UK office at NIAB’s Barn4 AgriTech Incubator in Cambridge. France-based Sencrop specialises in weather monitoring and crop disease forecasting and has been active in the UK for...
Defra and the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) have confirmed that the virus yellows forecast for the 2022 sugar beet crop is sufficient to allow the use of the Cruiser SB (600 g/litre thiamethoxam) seed treatment this...
A cross-sector review of weed management commissioned by AHDB and the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) has found that essential weed management information could be lost to the industry unless key sources of reference material are identified and archived. The...
The 2017/18 sugar beet campaign, which ended with factory closures just before Easter, saw record beet yield achieved, says British Sugar. The average crop yield was 83.4 tonnes of beet per hectare, up from the previous record of 79.8 tonnes/hectare. The overall...