It has been introduced at Morley Farms, near Wymondham, Norfolk, in an attempt to protect sugar beet from aphids. Farmer David Jones said pests can "reduce yield by 50% in a bad year". Shaun ...
He had planted 172 acres (70 hectares) of sugar beet on his 1,000 acre (404 hectare) arable farm. "There's a big area of the field that's gone so wet the crop's gone rotten and if we sent it into ...
the Government has granted sugar beet farms the right to use a banned bee-killing pesticide for a fourth year. “This decision flies in the face of ecological sense. These pesticides are banned ...