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Brazilian exports of sugar to the UK rocketed in the first quarter of 2021 as a direct result of the UK’s post-Brexit tariff regime.

Brazilian exports of sugar to the UK rocketed in the first quarter of 2021 as a direct result of the UKs post-Brexit tariff regime.

The Department of Health and Social Care sent an internal warning that the Government’s new sugar tariffs would push prices down for consumers, Farmers Guardian can reveal.

The Government set up the Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) ‘two years too late’, the group’s chairman has said.

The Government set up the Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) two years too late, the groups chairman has said.

In the tough times ahead, I hope farmers will see there is more to gain from working together than from being king of your own sandcastle, says arable farmer and NFU Sugar Board member Tom Clarke.

As soil begins to dry out and conditions come right, sugar beet drilling has commenced in some parts of the country.

Almost 50 years on from the closure of the Scottish sugar beet factory in Cupar, a Rural Innovation Support Service group is aiming to look into the feasibility and steps required to re-establish the crop in eastern Scotland.