Field-to-Factory Partnership

Our vision is to improve Campaign for everyone

Working together to make change happen
for our industry

Launched at the start of 2022, the Field-to-Factory Partnership is an ambitious project intending to improve the sugar beet Campaign for everyone; growers, harvesters, hauliers and processor.

The Partnership’s Vision is clear:

EVERYONE will benefit from improved Campaign planning that provides greater visibility and flexibility.

EVERYONE will have access to the information they need to make timely decisions that benefit their business.

EVERYONE will be involved so they can make the choices that are right for them and their business.

EVERYONE will benefit from a supply chain that is reliable and efficient

A Partnership designed around grower and industry partner feedback

Growers and industry partners were asked their views of the sugar beet campaign, totalling nearly 600 surveys and 30 hours of interviews. The insights from this research gave the most comprehensive insight into attitudes to the Campaign that there has ever been. The aim was to understand their experience with the industry and the pain points in their interaction with British Sugar.

From this, five focus areas of improvement were identified. Delivering tangible change in these areas is critical to the success of the Field-to-Factory Partnership and maintaining sugar beet’s position as the most profitable and productive break crop in arable rotations.