Sugarbeet: Environmental protection that really pays off

by absorbing nutrients from very deep soil layers. Since it grows throughout the growing season, the beet also uses late mineralized nitrogen from organic matter and counteracts nitrate leaching into water bodies or groundwater.​

as it can be used not only in nutrition, but also for fuels, biogas and - due to its high energy content - in the feeding of dairy cows. Additionally, sugar from beet can serve as the basis for alternative packaging material.

of ~ 2% per year exceeds almost any other crop – this leads to a more efficient use of a limited cultivation area.​

since it is produced on existing arable land under social conditions.​

Sugar and other products like bioethanol and biogas reach the consumer without long transport distances.​

because 1 ha sugarbeet produces much more oxygen than 1 ha of our native forest! In the same time it fixes almost twice as much CO2 and by using bioethanol or biogas, fossil fuels can be saved.​

This makes sugarbeet defend itself against a wide range of diseases. There is great potential to reduce the use of plant protection products.​

Feeding animals with beet pulp and molasses.​

Feeding fields with carbolime and remaining beet leaves.​

offers ideal conditions for the cultivation of catch crops. Thus, it is possible to bind nutrients in crop rotation, improve the soil structure or carry out biological pest control.​

Sugarbeet as a spring crop and a “non-cereal” freshens up your cereal rotations.​

Weeds typical for wintercereals don’t like timing and herbicides of sugarbeet.​
Furthermore sugarbeet doesn’t host cereal pests and diseases and interrupts their development cycles.​

Once other fields have been harvested, the sugarbeet field still serves as a habitat.