It looks like spring has finally sprung here at Rougham Estate and the farm team are hard at work planting this season’s Sugar Beet.
Sugar Beet isn’t planted in the same way as cereals and oilseed rape; it is drilled into the ground using a highly mechanised precision drill which places the seed 16cm apart in each row and the rows are exactly 50cm apart.
To enable this precision, the seed is encapsulated in clay to make it perfectly round and uniform.
The Sugar Beet will be harvested between October & January and delivered to the factory at Bury St Edmunds to become Silver Spoon Sugar.
In fact this field where we are working is only 2 miles away from the factory and you can see it on the skyline in the picture above.
