Re: sugar beet machinery

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:33:45 +0100, Stephen Temple wrote:
greymaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Been talking to machinery salesmen. It seems to have finally sank in
to Irelands beet farmers that the sugar beet industry is dead, and
they are either trying the fodder beet option, trying peas/beans as a
break crop, or getting a (tm) real job. Some even bought machinery up
to last year. Anyway, there is a large amount of surplus beet
machinery around, which will have to be moved before it starts to rust
too much. What is happening in England?.. Assuming that the there is
no sugar beet production in Scotia or Wales.. There was a story that
France would take over the Irish business.



At our sale last week, there was a fairly new 3 row trailed
harvester put in by one of our neighbours. Not a single bid.


Will sugar beet farming continue in England?.. There is a great deal of
anger here, people are saying that the privatised Sugar processor is
using compensation to pay off debts cause by unwise speculation...
Others, are pointing out that Ireland's sugar farming with top
production of 20-25tons ber acre could never compete with top Bavarian
or French top production of 30+ tons.


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greymaus
Just Another Grumpy Old Man


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