Close
result in beet contest!
A
yield of six tonnes per hectare split the top five in the club’s annual
competition for best two acres of sugar beet.
Results
of best two-acre sugar beet competition, which attracted a total of 10 entries
from across the club’s beet growing heartland. Thanks to our member, Sarah
Bebb, who is an area manager for British Sugar’s Cantley factory, for analysis
of the samples.
Results
– 1 G
A Tallowin, of Willow Farm, Hickling; 2 DL Ritchie, of Ludham Hall; 3 C H
Callow and partners; of East Ruston; 4 HBS Sands Farms, Happisburgh; 5 Hirst
Farms, Ormesby; 6 CN Beck & Sons, Brunstead, Stalham.
For precise details
of the hand-dug yields, please contact Sarah.
All entries, which
were taken in early September, comfortably exceeded 100 tonnes per hectare. And
by coincidence for the chairman, Neil Jordan, the top three in the beet
competition were all his customers.
The
Potato Cup
1
Robin Baines & Co, of Hoveton. A crop of Innovator. The 4.5ha (11.2 acres)
field of second early, irrigated, for French fry production, was grown at
Ludham on land on Mr Ritchie’s farm. Runner-up was Nick Deane, of Bure Valley
Potatoes, with 45 acres of Markies, grown by Nelson County Potatoes. A field of
Innovator for McCain Foods at Tuttington, near Aylsham, grown by LF Papworth,
of Felmingham, took third place. Denis Walsh, of Greenvale AP, was the judge.
Sugar
beet – whole crop
The
judge was Ken Matthews, of Stoke Ferry Agricultural Society.
Two
points split the top three places. A field at Tuttington took honours for LF
Papworth. The runner-up was the father and son team, Alan and Geoffrey Beck, of
CN Beck & Sons, of Brunstead, near Stalham. The third placed crop was grown
by Milligen & McLeod, of East Ruston.
First
and last in cereals
It
was a case of the first and last in a vintage year for the annual grain
competitions, which were judged by Chris Borrett and Matthew Adams, of
merchants, Adams & Howling.
The
competition attracted a total of more than 30 samples. The two barley samples
will be forwarded to Bob King, of the Crisp Malting Group, for competition
against Holt & District Farmers’ Club.
A
first-time entrant, William Sands, entered a winning barley sample while the
wheat cup was won by John McLeod’s manager, Stewart Marsh, who was actually one
of the last to submit entries. A case of first and last in a vintage year!
Barley - 1 HBS Farms (1995) Ltd, of Happisburgh, Cassata; 2 and
3 Milligen
McLeod Farming, of Easton Ruston , with Maris Otter and
Concerto.
Wheat – 1 Milligen McLeod Farming, of East Ruston, Invicta;
2 LJ & JL
Mitchell, of Repps cum Bastwick, Dickens; 3 JA Paterson & Co, of Dilham, Leeds.
Trophies
and prize cards will be presented at the annual dinner in March.
The
club is again grateful to all members for entering and also to the judging
panel, led by Chris Borrett.