Welcome to the BBRO

We aim to provide sugar beet growers and wider industry with the resources required to grow a healthy and profitable sugar beet crop in the UK.

Current Crop News

Keep up to date with BBRO activities and your opportunities to find out more with our news, events, developments and other information.

Advisory Bulletin

BBRO Advisory Bulletin No 6

Beet establishing well where rainfall received, but various pests to watch out for.

BeetCast

BeetCast June: New profile and increasing portfolio of research

 Meet Stephen Swainston, new Managing Director of BBRO and hear of the increasing number of projects being undertaken in crop production by BBRO's applied scientist, Dr Georgina Barratt.

Soil temperatures

Drilling into the right conditions is vital to getting the crop off to a good start. Our new weather stations are proving invaluable in helping us to determine what is happening in field.

New MD for BBRO Announced

The BBRO Directors are pleased to announce Stephen Swainston’s appointment

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BBRO is a not for profit making company.
We are set up jointly by British Sugar plc and the National Farmers' Union.

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