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With the sugar beet harvest, or campaign as it's known, currently underway Farming Today This Week explores the British sugar industry. The company, British Sugar, processes all of the UK's sugar beet and works directly with 3,500 farmers. This morning Charlotte Smith is at one of their processing plants in Norfolk. During the campaign a lorry carrying 30 tonnes of sugar beet arrives at the factory, in Wissington, around every 45 seconds. Charlotte finds out how the farmers work with British Sugar and how the sugar beet is processed into the sugar we sprinkle on our cereal.

Sugar production quotas in the EU are set to come to an end in 2017. Farming Today This Week asks British Sugar what will happen to the markets in the run up to the end of the quota system. And with high stocks of sugar on the EU market, farmers will face a 20% cut in the price they're paid for the crop next year. British Sugar will also reduce their production by 20% and has offered farmers a one year contract 'holiday', Anna Hill speaks to a farmer in Suffolk who has taken the company up on this offer.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton.