Re: Beet lifting


"Derek Moody" <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <11jhtt4tkl3nl9b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Temple
> <URL:mailto:usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Huw wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > I give it two more years as the omens are at present.
>
> Just a thought: Are we likely to see fodder beets/mangolds increasing?
>

an interesting question

Just thinking as I write, I'd say probably not on a national level, as they
would involve increased cost and probably be grown as a result of
intensification. Hence nationally we want cost out of the system and
nationally we aren't really pushing to intensify.
But on an individual farm level it is perfectly possible for someone near
you to do their sums for their business and work out that for them, fodder
beet or mangolds are going to be well worth growing.

But to be honest this isn't a lot more than guess work posing as something
more rarefied.

Jim Webster


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