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Campaign Start Dates & Beet Intake Opening Times

3 September 2019

Cambridgeshire Sugar Beet Field

Following discussions with NFU Sugar we are pleased to announce the campaign start dates for the 2019/20 sugar beet campaign.

This season’s campaign start dates for beet deliveries are:

• Bury   17 September

• Newark 17 September

• Wissington 30 September

• Cantley    7 October

Colm McKay, Agriculture Director said: “We’re pleased to announce the sugar beet campaign start dates. With the prospects for this year’s crop looking positive the dates are aimed at striking a balance between supplying our customers with a quality product and giving growers and hauliers time to plan their harvesting and delivery schedules”

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British Sugar Contact:

Ruth Day; Tel: 07864 800 406 Email: ruth.day@britishsugar.com

Notes to Editors:

• British Sugar is the sole processor of the UK’s sugar beet crop, and supplies around 50 per cent of the UK’s demand for sugar. The company operates four advanced manufacturing plants across East Anglia and the East Midlands.
• In addition to producing sugar, each year, British Sugar’s factories produces a wide range of co-products including animal feed, electricity and bioethanol.
• British Sugar is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods. The company’s output is sold to consumers in the UK under the Silver Spoon brand and under many supermarket own-label brands.
• British Sugar is regarded by independent consultants LMC International as one of the most competitive sugar manufacturers in the world.
• The British beet sugar industry partners with 7,000 businesses including over 3,000 growers in mainly rural areas of the country, It also supports 9,500 jobs throughout the economy.