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THE Ministry of Agriculture, in agreement with the Ministry of Food, is sending a small mission to North America this autumn during the sugar beet harvest season to study progress there in research and development work on the mechanization of sugar beet cultivating and harvest. The party will consist of Mr. J. Bradley, principal scientific officer in charge of the engineering side of the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering; Mr. W. J. West, senior scientific officer on the agricultural side of the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering; Mr. F. E. Thornhill, agricultural officer from the British Sugar Corporation factory at Allscott, Salop; and Mr. H. S. Taylor, agricultural officer from the British Sugar Corporation factory at Brigg, Lines. They will visit the principal growing areas in North America during harvest and will study practical operations in the field and in the factories in addition to the research and development work being undertaken by university centres, sugar factories and agricultural machinery manufacturers. It is hoped that the information and experience gained will be of considerable value to workers in this field in Great Britain, at a time when the problem of developing suitable machinery to meet the needs of British growers at the peak periods of cultivation and harvesting is of vital urgency. Special attention will be devoted to problems connected with the segmentation of sugar beet seed, the development of beet seed drills and the mechanization of sugar beet harvesting.
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Mechanization of Sugar Beet Production. Nature 156, 361 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156361c0
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