Fodder beet / Remolacha / Betterave fouraggère
More rustic compared to the sugar beet. Suited for sandy and clay soils, it prefers medium texture soils, neutral or low alkaline.
The root can be consumed fresh or silaged.
- Mixture adaptation: Low
- Usage: Fresh consumption, silage
- Seeding rate: 80.000 seeds/ha
Brigadier
Brigadier is most suitable for strip grazing due to:
- Bulbs sit high up out of the soil, which means easy accessible for animals
- Soft bite due to low dry matter content makes it suitable for all kinds of animals
- Abundant healthy leaves give good weed control
- High sugar level makes it very palatable
- Brigadier breaks the traditional weed and pest cycle of brassicas
- Suitable for slightly saline soils
- Usage: Fresh consumption, silage
