/latest-news/Latest NewsCopyright NFU 2012 | All rights reservedLetter to growers from the Head of BBRO, Colin MacEwan, to launch the 4x4 yield initiative.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/BBRO-Launches-4x4-Yield-Initiative/20 Feb 2012CAP Reform Post 2013 - And what it could mean for Sugar?http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/CAP-Reform-Post-2013/06 Feb 2012Sugar beet harvesting and storagehttp://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Frost-Bulletin/30 Jan 2012British Sugar update letterhttp://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/British-Sugar-Grower-Update-January-2012/09 Jan 2012The Sugar Bureau have recently launched a new website to better reflect their current scientific work.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Sugar-Nutrition-UK/11 Oct 2011Campaign start and ongoing daily reportshttp://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Start-of-the-2011-campaign-and-ongoing-reports/19 Sep 2011Contact details for NFU Beet Reception Committee members and NFU seasonal staff at your delivery site for the campaign 2011 12http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/NFU-site-contacts-for-the-2011-12-campaign/12 Sep 2011Interesting facts about the UK Sugar Beet sector that you possibly didn't know.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Did-You-Know-/26 Jul 2011Whole Beet Sampling & Trial Analysis Report - June 2011http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Whole-Beet-Sampling---Trial-Analysis-Report---June-2011/20 Jun 2011Visual acceptance standards for the acceptance for frosted / deteriorated beethttp://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Visual-guidelines-on-acceptance-criteria-for-frosted-and-deteriorated-beet/24 Jan 2011Two new questions have been added to the Red Tractor farm assurance schemes this year in order to help growers easily comply with new mandatory requirements of the biofuel and bioliquid markets that are to be introduced with the Renewable Energy Directive from December.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Farm-Assurance-Scheme-changes/20 Sep 2010Supported by the NFU, British Sugar and Farmers Weekly have launched a new competition for entrants to nuture a virtual sugar beet crop to maximise yield potential for a chance to win a trip the Castilla y León region of Spain in April 2011. http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Beet-the-Best-competition-now-open-for-entries/20 Sep 2010Growers wishing to retain their CTE are urged to complete their 2011 contracts by 3rd September. http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Final-deadline-for-2011-contracts-announced/26 Aug 2010The tax treatment of transactions in sugar beet contract tonnage entitlement.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Sugar-beet-CTE-taxation-treatment/05 Aug 2010Talking at the recent World Association of Beet and Cane Growers (WABCG) conference that the NFU hosted in Cambridge, Defra Secretary of State, Caroline Spelman praised the new Inter-Professional Agreement (IPA) between the NFU and British Sugar.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Secretary-of-State-praises-sugar-deal/04 Aug 2010Some growers have expressed concern over implications of prolonged dry conditions on their sugar beet yields on meeting their contracted tonnage.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Fulfilling-your-beet-contract/04 Aug 2010Final Statement of the 10th WABCG Conference held in Cambridge, 19-22 July 2010. http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/WABCG10-Final-Statement/23 Jul 20102011 Contracting Packs have now been posted to growers.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Important---2011-Contracting-Information/25 Jun 2010As part of the new Outgoers scheme, growers are now able to trade beet.http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/Sugar-Beet-trading-gets-underway/17 Jun 2010Following the agreement between British Sugar and the NFU earlier this year and the new IPA, growers have received details of the changes for the 2010 contracting round (2011 sugar beet crop).http://www.nfusugar.com/Latest-News/2011-Sugar-Beet-Contract---The-`new`-deal/10 Jun 2010