Contents:

• Take five
• Fodder beet’s ‘stairway to heaven’
• Is fodder beet here to stay?
• Are all beets created equal?
• Transitioning keeps cropping up
• Beet vs maize silage: how to work out which is best
• How to get the best beet yields
• New tool to help farmers climb the ladder
• Students learn the grassroots of farming
• Strategies for better financial benchmarking
• Maximising forage crop returns
• Just quickly
• Regional update
• Election supplement: a vision for dairying