Revesby Farms Sugar Beet

The Estate farms 1220 hectares of land in hand. This goes under the name of Revesby Farms and is managed closely between the Wiggins-Davies family and Farm Manager Chris Baylis.

Sugar beet is also grown on the farm and plays an important part of our sustainable crop rotation. The spring drilling of the beet crop allows over wintered weeds within the field to be controlled through cultivation reducing the reliance on chemical control, also the over wintered stubbles of the previous cereal crop produce winter feeding and natural cover for farm wildlife during the harsh winter months.

Once harvested the crop is transported to the British Sugar processing facility at Newark upon Trent. Here the root crop is processed into natural sugars and syrups used through our everyday life. The bi products from this process are returned to local farms as animal feed stuffs or natural fertiliser materials for the following crops.

We also let land for the growing of vining peas to a local Produce Group, this crop is another important part of our sustainable rotation. Peas and beans have a natural ability to fix nitrogen within the soil eliminating the need for inorganic fertilisers to be applied to the crop. Once the crop is harvesting the remaining crop debris within the field is cultivated back into the soil building soil reserves and reducing the amount of inorganic fertiliser be required by the following cereal crop by up to 25%.

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