Growers will have to deliver own beet due to HGV driver shortage

摘要

Sugar beet growers may have to rely on their own tractors and trailers to transport their crop to the factory this campaign because of a national shortage of HGV drivers.NFU Sugar and British Sugar issued the stark warning to growers as this year's sugar beet-lifting campaign got under way with the opening of the Bury St Edmunds processing factory on 16 September.British Sugar's beet-processing factory in Newark, Nottinghamshire, opened on 21 September, with the two Norfolk factories at Wissington and Cantley due to open on 28 September and 12 October, respectively.