1st time beet grower

[headcase]

Maybe me, but there is little smell from microwaved beet?

Mrs might expect supper.....

 

[Glencairn tms]

Power harrowing for beet the ground was ploughed,disced, furrow pressed, fertiliser spread and power harrowed

 

[Glencairn tms]

Setting enermax fodder beet

 

[horsebox44]

Enermax peeping up here.. Could do with a drink. Sown 15th of April.

 

[Mid cork]

That’s more than peeping, it was always considered a great sign of beet if you could see it up in rows for the May bank holiday. I would say you’re well on curse for that.

 

[headcase]

Pray for rain now

 

[Peter]

I seen beet been sown today in lea ground. I thought beet should not be sown after grass?

 

[Danielk]

I seen beet been sown today in lea ground. I thought beet should not be sown after grass?

I never done it myself but know a lad who always does it and puts beet in for two years and then back to grass

 

[Cork]

I never done it myself but know a lad who always does it and puts beet in for two years and then back to grass

I can’t think of a problem other than a greatly increased risk of uncontrollable leather jackets or wireworm (or both as I saw in a crop of barley today...)

 

[Ozzy Scott]

I seen beet been sown today in lea ground. I thought beet should not be sown after grass?

i used regularly sow after grass, never an issue

 

[Arthur]

I can’t think of a problem other than a greatly increased risk of uncontrollable leather jackets or wireworm (or both as I saw in a crop of barley today...)

Iirc you could only grow one year in three in the same ground for the sugar company

 

[Titan 8820]

Iirc you could only grow one year in three in the same ground for the sugar company

Correct.
One bucko near here decided to beat the rules and sowed beet a second year.
Thought he had hoodwinked everyone including the fieldman who sold him all the inputs.
Once the campaign was underway and he hadnt received his delivery dockets, he put in a call. Was simply told that he had broken the terms of his contract and they wouldnt be accepting any beet from him this season.
He was a 50 acre grower and the field in question was just 12 acres but the whole lot had to go for cattlefeed that year.

"Sometimes those who think they are clever are in fact fools and those who we regard as fools are in reality, clever"
Confucius.

 

[Titan 8820]

I seen beet been sown today in lea ground. I thought beet should not be sown after grass?

It was the old school of thought before Roundup , when people would plough down green grass. ( remember those days ) which may have become a problem in the crop.
And as already mentioned pests could be a problem.
But has been done by many loads of times without issue.

 

[dmaxman]

I seen beet been sown today in lea ground. I thought beet should not be sown after grass?

we have done it occasionally. It can cause violet root? Which is caused by the sod breaking down, the beet doesn't store well with it. The last time I did it i ploughed down a ton of lime per acre and it helped

 

[Mid cork]

Back in the sugar beet days it was always said that the further away you from grass in the rotation the better, and I would totally agree with that. A lot of the worst crops I’ve seen were first or second year after grass.

 

[dmaxman]

A drop of rain always makes beet look well

 

[btd-6]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2647580148857583

This is some Jamon fodder beet we drilled last week.. 20" rows at 9.89" plant spacing.

 

[Danielk]

Good strike of beet this year. A nice drop of rain will do it no harm as ground is really dry.

The beet I pulled was a double so no point leaving a double

 

[Ozzy Scott]

Good strike of beet this year. A nice drop of rain will do it no harm as ground is really dry.

The beet I pulled was a double so no point leaving a double

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Your better off if that doesnt see rain for awhile, drought savage at getting deep roots in beet. Always had big crops in dry years

 

[Ozzy Scott]

Forst for the next couple of nights so their saying!!

They will be grand at that size and weather is hardy atm anyway

 

[Danielk]

Your better off if that doesnt see rain for awhile, drought savage at getting deep roots in beet. Always had big crops in dry years

Well that’s true. It is going down for the moisture. So long as it gets rain sometime as I don’t want it like 2018 again.

 

[Cork]

Forst for the next couple of nights so their saying!!

Bolting........

 

[Cork]

Stunting........

Yep but I’d be worried about bolting, Patrick’s day sown crops had to be certain bolting resistant varieties in case of frost.
I saw some beet yesterday heading into its second year in the ground. A field full of seed stalks already.....

 

[Ozzy Scott]

Yep but I’d be worried about bolting, Patrick’s day sown crops had to be certain bolting resistant varieties in case of frost.
I saw some beet yesterday heading into its second year in the ground. A field full of seed stalks already.....

FFS, that's idiotic

 

[Cork]

FFS, that's idiotic

Awful, setting up a serious seed burden in the soil!