Spring sowing 2023 badly delayed

In the last week of April, the Bauernblatt Schleswig-Holstein reported that around 40 per cent of the sugar beet had not yet been sown and that farmers were waiting for good weather in the first week of May.

In the Hildesheim area, the beet could already be seen in the row at the two-leaf stage at that time, and the first post-emergence herbicide applications were taking place. In the Weser valley and the Weser Uplands, on the other hand, more than half of the fields were still waiting to become passable.

In the Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel area, likewise on good soils for sugar beet, no beet at all had been drilled by the end of April because the fields were too wet. This is reported by the demonstration drivers who support the monograin drills with the Mediana 820, among others.

In western Germany, in the Rhineland, beet sowing is also delayed. A similar picture in western Lower Saxony: the beet for the biogas plants and the silage maize are still waiting for passable fields.

The same in the Soester Börde. Some of the sugar beet could be sown, but many fields are not yet passable.

The same picture is reported from the eastern German states. Where the fields have been able to dry out, maize, beet and other spring crops are in the ground or have already emerged; where it is still too wet, farmers are desperately waiting for good weather and passable soils.

We wish all farmers that they can complete sowing successfully very soon and that the sugar beet, the maize and the other spring crops now develop particularly quickly and make up the expected delay as far as possible!