The Northern German plants of Nordzucker AG, Brauns chweig, have now brought the 2013/2014 beet campaign to an end with respectable results.

While growers will broadly welcome any rise in price, the extra £1/t for 2014 negotiated by the NFU on behalf of the 3,500 UK beet growers is hardly t

The beet is an herbaceous biennial plant of the Chenopodiaceae family.

Supplies of beets are strained at the moment as the transition continues from the northern growing regions back to the southern regions.