UK's sugar beet price at £40/t, almost 50% higher than last year

In Great Britain, in some farms, the yield of sugar beet in 2024 has exceeded the mark of 100 t/ha, and the sugar content is holding. FarmersWeekly writes about it. In total, sugar beet crops in the country are 102 thousand hectares this year, 99 thousand hectares last year, and 90 thousand hectares in 2022. Sugar beet grower and harvesting contractor Richard Ivatt near Lincolnshire plans to dig up 1,500 hectares of beet and despite the wet weather he is getting good results. "Currently, we harvested approximately 250 hectares with a yield of 80-90 t/ha. Also 3 weeks ago (which is extremely early) we got a yield of over 100 t/ha in the Spalding area. Sugar content 17%. Although it was lower at the beginning of the collection campaign," he says. The average sugar content is about 17.5%. The sugar content of beets usually increases throughout the campaign from September to mid-November. Richard Ayvat applied a seeding rate of 110,000 seeds/ha, aiming for a pre-harvest density of ...