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Winter Wheat/Sugar Beet

  • 19-03-2011 01:26PM
    #1
    anndub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Just wondering could anyone help me out.

    I need a brief overview of the production system of Winter Wheat and Sugar Beet i.e. the application volumes and rates of fertilisers/biocides and when application would occur.

    Hours of research and I haven't been able to find anything!

    Many Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    ihatetractors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭ihatetractors


    :cool:1st do a soil test, go to local grain merchant they should have someone that'll help, or maybe a local tillage farmer might help? WW after beet is an almost garunteed 4 ton crop if the years good.

    WW-
    Fert (what ever soil requirements are) at sowing
    Depending on when you sow/ what weather is after sowing may need an insecticide in oct/nov for aphids(greenfly) at what ever rate is needed ie. mild outbreak 1/2 rate etc.
    Might also need fungicide in autumn.
    If your sowing after beet i wouldn't worry too much about autumn spray as it's usualy mid oct that you're sowing.
    In spring you'll nitrogen(some lads split the application 2/3 now, 1/3 after) and say a half rate fungicide and maybe a herbicide, some years growth restrictor is needed to help prevent lodging later on.
    In say june july weather/disease dependant you may need another fungicide/pesticide to clean out any disease.
    Mid August, harvest:cool:
    Haven't grown beet in years sorry.


  • #3
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Quick outline of the beet

    Sow late March/April.

    Fert mostly into seedbed
    150 Kgs N per ha
    50 Kgs of P per Ha
    250 Kgs of K per Ha
    70Kgs of sulphur per Ha
    8kgs of Boron per Ha

    Above is a crop growing requirement, depending on soil tests figures are up or down

    Spray germinating weeds after about a month and again a few weeks later. once beet gets over the weeds it easy sailing from there on. A fungicide spray around the first of August and bobs your uncle.

    Harvest from October onwards right through to March in a normal year :D


  • #4
    anndub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭anndub


    Thanks guys, much appreciated.

    I need the same info on oilseed rape too. Anyone have any experience growing that?


  • #5
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭nilhg


    There's quite a lot of information in the teagasc crops costs and returns booklet, loads of people quibble over the costings they use to come up with the final figures but the actual quantities in the notes are not too far from the mark.

    http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/publications_subject.asp,

    Scroll down to the tillage section and it's the third one.


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