Re: Beet lifting


<greymaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:05:53 +0100, Huw wrote:
>> I see that the new beet campaign has started. I know this because I took
>> the
>> first load of pulp out of the factory this morning. It was loaded on
>> Friday
>> so lifting must have started about Wednesday last.
>>
>> Huw
>>
>>
>
> Been moving here for the last couple of weeks at least, stuff off deep
> soils very good, off light soils `like parsnips'; Man was interviewed
> on Radio Saturday morning, had to get beet drawn from Ardee, Co.
> Louth, to Mallow. He wasn't complaining too much, just worried if
> there would be anything to draw next year. `Surplus' beet is a
> doubthful situation.
>

Not being a beet expert, or expert anything come to think of it, but I
suspect that sugar beet will become something of a rarity in the UK as a
consequence of globalisation and the single farm payment.

Huw


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