Agri Politics
This year’s sugar beet campaign is shaping up to be another disappointment for many European growers, except in a few regions.
Rural Life
The development of the country's sugar beet industry is recalled in a new exhibition presented by the National Archives, chronicl...
Agri-Business
French sugar beet farmers will be in line for aid following a tractor protest in Paris last week in response to a ban on some pesticides.
Farmers in the French sugar beet sector have taken to the streets of Paris in their tractors to protest against a ban on pesticide use.
A Dutch-born artist who is based in Stradbally, Co. Laois, has been stirring debate on the closure of the sugar beet factories.
Tillage News
It has been reported that farmers in Ukraine have cut back significantly on the acreage of grain maize and soya they are growing this year.
Sugar beet looks set to return to Scotland as a key driver of the country's bio-economy. The first successful crop in 50 years was harvested last year.
Tillage
The Potash Development Association (PDA) has come out to remind growers that sugar beet has a large requirement for potassium (K).
AgriLand has heard that Beet Ireland is expected to make an announcement regarding its plans for the future in the coming weeks.
This article contains some estimated costs and gross margins for sugar beet crops in the UK on both heavy and light land.
Beet Ireland will meet potential growers in the coming weeks and months. AgriLand spoke to Brian Arnold at the 'Ploughing'.
Councillors at a meeting of the Athy Municipal district in Co. Kildare have welcomed the development of the BEET Ireland site at Ballyburn.
Sugar beet growers and the former sugar processor Greencore are set to be reimbursed following a miscalculation of levies.
Used equipment from Ireland's closed sugar factories in Mallow and Carlow have aided the resurgence of the sugar industry in Ukraine.
Opinion
Why the need for a new sugar processing plant when there is already a potential market for all the beet that can be grown in Ireland?
Farm bodies in Co. Tipperary must consider making submissions on plans to revive the sugar beet industry, Mattie McGrath has stated.
The area of land sown to sugar beet in the UK has increased and yields were high this year at 100t/ha. Beet yields are also high in Ireland.
Beet is plentiful at the minute, as farmers continue to pull crops from the ground. Dry weather has resulted in clean crops.
A total of 35% of tillage farmers are "fearful of the future" of the tillage sector, according to the results of a survey by the Irish Grain Growers Association.
In 2016/2017, EU sugar beet production is estimated 5% above last year, at 107 million tonnes, according to latest data from the European Commission.
It is up to commercial interests to move forward plans to reestablish sugar production in Ireland, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed.
The Irish and UK sugar beet and potato yield for 2015 is to be above the five-year average, according to the European Commission's latest MARS Bulletin.
2014/2015 has been confirmed to be an exceptional year for EU sugar production, according to the European Commission.
