Aug 1, 2023 · Beet stored in poorly managed clamps can severely reduce crop quality, leading to financial penalties and even crop rejections. We take a look at the latest advice on how to construct and manage sugar beet clamps to ensure growers get the best price for their crop.

A storage clamp is used in the agricultural industry for temporary storage of root crops such as potato, turnip, rutabaga, mangelwurzel, and sugar beet. A clamp is formed by excavating a shallow rectangular depression in a field to make a base for the clamp.

Aug 16, 2016 · A recent shift to whole-beet delivery and more widespread use of in-field A-shaped clamps has led to concerns about increased sugar losses as a result of these changes in practice.

Beet stored in poorly managed clamps can severely reduce crop quality, leading to financial penalties and even crop rejections. We look at the latest advice on how to construct and manage sugar beet clamps to ensure growers get the best price for their crop.

Dec 9, 2024 · While temperatures remain relatively warm, it is important to try and keep the time beet is clamped prior to delivery to a minimum to preserve sugar levels and reduce rot roots, the British Beet Research Organisation advises sugar beet growers.

Numerous experiments have proved that sugar losses in protected clamps are less than losses in uncovered clamps, especially in cases of severe freezing. In addition, clamp covering improves the beet cleaning during the loading process.

• Never push beet up the face of the clamp. This will break beet, compact the clamp and in turn restrict air movement, allow heat to build-up and increase the rate of sugar loss. • Sugar beet stores best where it has only minimal damage from harvesting. Average losses in clamp are circa 0.1% of total sugar volume per day but BBRO

See how to apply appropriate storage strategies and techniques help to minimise beet damage, reduce sugar losses and prevent crops deteriorating, whether stored in the field or in clamps.

Short-term clamps are designed to give maximum surface area and therefore cooling to reduce sugar loss through respiration. Clamps should be made up of individual loads and be no more than 2m high. Pushing up clamps with buckets/blades should be avoided as this will increase damage and respiration.

At IfZ, soil tare, leaf residues, topping diameter, root tip breakage and surface damage of the beets were determined. The beets were stored in 6 replicates in a climate container at 9 °C for...