Growing
Developing grower partnerships
ALL OUR SUGAR BEET COMES FROM FARMS IN EAST ANGLIA AND THE EAST MIDLANDS
DEVELOPING GROWER PARTNERSHIPS
We work with the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and over 3,000 growers who supply the eight million tonnes of sugar beet that we process at our four advanced manufacturing plants every year, to produce 1.2 million tonnes of homegrown sugar for customers across the UK and Ireland and parts of Europe.
DRIVING CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
We are strong supporters of sustainable agriculture and helping farmers continuously improve their sugar beet yields. To drive this continuous improvement, we have established a mixed funded research and development and knowledge exchange programme, through the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO).
This collaborative approach continues to drive increased sugar beet yields and over the past 10 years we have increased yields by 25%.
WE HAVE INCREASED
SUGAR BEET YIELDS
BY 25% OVER THE
PAST 10 YEARS
VIRUS YELLOW'S PATHWAY
Together, the beet sugar industry have a long term ambition to find a solution to the challenge of Virus Yellows (VY) without the use of neonicotinoid seed treatment. This is a complex issue to solve and will take time.
We are actively working on a Virus Yellow’s Pathway.
With experts, our intention is to find solutions in areas such as new VY tolerant seed varieties, new seed treatments to establish the crop more quickly, sustainable spray programmes, grower practices and ultimately creating fully tolerant varieties using modern breeding techniques such as gene editing.
Registered in England
No. 315158 at Weston Centre
10 Grosvenor Street
London W1K 4QY