Tillage farmers must plan for future without beet

“YOU’RE depending solely on the market now, and sugar beet is on the way out”, will be the blunt message to growers at next Thursday’s (January 26) Teagasc National Tillage Conference.

Top tillage farmer Larry O’Reilly of Ballyraggett, Co Kilkenny, and Teagasc specialist advisor Michael Hennessy, will speak on decoupled tillage farming.

Other speakers include French farmer J P Langlois-Berthelot, and Prof David Powlson from Rothamsted Research Centre in the UK, who will explain how soil organic carbon might be used to improve yields.