SugarBeet News
Topics of the SugarBeet Expo 2026
Here you will find regular news, technical articles and interviews on the focus topics of the new open-air trade fair. You can also find further information in our media centre and the DLG digital magazine.
Healthy Soils Stabilize Yields
For many farmers, it is almost inconceivable that commercial crop production can be successful on soils with a soil rating of only 9 points. On Germany's 0-100 soil quality scale, a rating of 9 places a field among the poorest agricultural soils in the country. Yet this is precisely the challenge faced by Christian Hinz, Managing Director of Gut Klein Bünzow Estate, a 2,000-hectare arable farming business in northeastern Germany in the former East Germany.
Catrin Hahn
Direct drilling in sugar beet cultivation: benefits for soil, yield and efficiency
Direct drilling is also becoming increasingly important in sugar beet cultivation. The opportunities offered by this method, the challenges it presents, and the solutions being developed in the field will be highlighted at the SugarBeet Expo, among other places, through its specialist programme.
Werner Raupert, freelance journalist
