Four sugar beet harvesters – three Vervaets and one Grimme – have been fitted with the system this season. Accuracy in some fields has been compared with trailer loads over a weighbridge.

Beet cyst nematode is an increasing threat to British sugar beet crops and growers ... but machines such as harvesters are the number one enemy for moving through large areas with no cleaning.

The UK government has refused to allow the emergency use of a banned pesticide on sugar beet to protect bees and ... Ms Hardy said: "Britain is currently one of the most nature depleted countries ...

Ms Hardy said: “Britain is currently one ... UK market for sugar which has been grown with neonicotinoid plant protection products, undermining our homegrown industry and British sugar beet ...

The Government has refused to allow the emergency use of a banned pesticide on sugar beet to ... Greenpeace UK’s policy director Doug Parr said the decision was “a win for bees, butterflies and all ...

“As a result of not having this emergency application granted, growers will not have a single ... sugar industry, home to the majority of around 3,000 sugar beet farmers and over 100,000 ...

This week, the Government refused an emergency application for the use of the neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser SB on sugar beet – a crop ... current threat to the UK’s sugar sector.

Sugar beet growers have hit out at a government ban ... There's so much depression within the industry - it's quite unbelievable. There's no one sector which is seeing a way forward. " ...

Sugar beet growers were warned that farm hygiene is "critical" to protect their crops from virus threats after an emergency pesticide bid was refused. Last week, Defra refused an application for ...

Players are being urged to check their tickets after a single UK ticketholder has won the £83 million jackpot in Friday’s EuroMillions draw. The winning player matched all five main numbers and ...