Sugar Beet Contracts in the UK
Many tenant farmers are concerned that participation in the new outgoers’ scheme, in England and Wales, could lead to a breach of their tenancy agreements.
Quota or contract?
Although sugar beet contracts are often referred to as ‘quotas’, they are personal ‘grow and deliver’ contracts between farmers and British Sugar. The contract tonnage entitlement is therefore personal to the contract holder and is not attached to the holding.
On a change of grower British Sugar does not have to offer a new contract, even if the land being farmed remains the same. British Sugar has always claimed an absolute discretion over the granting of contracts.
The key principle of the new scheme
