Growing fodder beet as a winter crop is allowing a Welsh upland farm to significantly reduce wintering costs. Even at a conservative yield of 18t DM/ha, fodder beet can provide more than double the ...

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To farmers who are unfamiliar with winter grazing fodder crops, kale and fodder beet can appear to provide very similar feeds. In fact, there are many points of difference, from yield and cattle ...

While crops like turnips and rape have been used regularly by some farmers, new varieties of fodder beet and kale are now offering more options. In the state’s North-West, Roberts agronomist Kurt de ...

New varieties of fodder beet are breaking the barriers for dry matter yield, according to the latest trial results from Limagrain UK. Top of the fodder beet list is Brick, a variety that was ...

The beef industry is poised for a revolution driven by explosive growth in the adoption of fodder beet by Kiwi farmers to finish cattle faster and cheaper than it has ever been possible before. That ...

Results from a fodder beet trail done on a Manawatu sheep farm has shown the return on the drop is three times greater than pasture. Pictured Scott Linklater in his fodder beet crop.Supplied / Central ...

Fodder beet is an increasingly popular winter crop for beef and dairy cattle due to the large amounts of dry matter it produces, but you and your stock won’t get the best out of the crop if its ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 47, No. 300 (JULY 1996), pp. 863-870 (8 pages) To investigate the factors governing the accumulation of sucrose and amino acids in the taproots of sugar beet, ...