RNAS Turnip and Fodder Beet Growing Crop Competition
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The Society encourages good crop husbandry through two annual competitions, one for growing cereals and this one, for growing turnips and swedes. Valuable confidential feedback about the opinion of the judges and the scoring of each crop is given to all entries so that they may compare their crops with all the others entered and further improve their own techniques. The projects have attracted wide support and healthy rivalry for the trophies and prize money. Special awards are given for young farmers and for crops in Less Favoured Areas.
The competition is to encourage and find the best husbandry crops of Turnips and Swedes in the RNAS area (Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire & Morayshire).
The crop will be at least 2.5 acres (1.0 hectare) in size but may be a block selected from a bigger field.
Turnip crops will be assessed under LFA and NON-LFA areas for
Stock feeding
Shopping and Processing
The crops will be weighed and judged in November/December (weather permitting).
A selection of 4 drill lengths across the block will be weighed, having been topped and tailed and any rotten or diseased bits removed, by the weighing squad.
One person will mark out the block on the diagonal with flags at the start of each length of drill to be weighed, equally divided across the field by quarters.
The length of drill to be weighed is determined by the width of the drills or bed.
There will be an independent judge to see fair play, mark down the weights and assess the crop. The crop will be assessed on the following criteria.
Yield
Uniformity of the crop (10 points)
Freedom from disease (10 points)
Freedom from pest damage (10 points)
Freedom from weeds (10 points)
Soundness of the bulb, which will be expected to survive till Spring 2024 (10 points)
The entry fee will be £5 per crop for members and £7 per crop for non-members.
There are trophies for the Overall Champion and the young entrant under 30 with the best entry in the turnips classes as well as one for the Fodder Beet champion.
Prizes of £20, £15 & £10 in each class provided there are at least three in each class as well as special prizes. Champion £15 & Reserve Champion £10.
Judges marks will in due course be reported to each grower. This will use code numbers to maintain confidentiality.
Kindly Sponsored By: Murray Duguid Ltd: Grass Seed Merchant
We’re a privately owned company, established in 1982, offering a wide range of agricultural products from stock and individual mixtures to cereal and forage seeds, we offer them all. All our seed mixtures are blended and packed for distribution from our own warehouse in Oldmeldrum. We offer delivery services across Aberdeenshire, the north of Scotland, and the Highlands and the Scottish Isles.
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