Details of an early retirement scheme for sugar beet growers will be revealed at the end of June.
The outgoers scheme will compensate growers who want to stop growing the crop. It will be unveiled at the same as the 2011 sugar beet prices, which will be calculated using a new four-year mechanism agreed between the NFU and British Sugar.
NFU sugar board chairman William Martin said the recent four-year deal with the sugar processor meant beet prices would now show a guaranteed margin over production costs and be comparable with the best alternative broadacre arable crops.
But some growers would still want to stop growing the crop, Mr Martin acknowledged.
This would be for reasons of geography, soil type or inclination, he told an NFU Council meeting at Leamington Spa on Tuesday (20 April).
"If they feel the new sugar beet pricing regime does not offer them the sort of opportunities they want on their farms, there will be the opportunity for them to get out of growing sugar beet and receive some value - some money - for their contract."
The right to grow beet contained in any relinquished contracts would be redistributed among other farmers, rather than returned to British Sugar, said Mr Martin. It was not aimed at reducing the amount of beet grown.
Meanwhile, the NFU and British Sugar were continuing to work out the details of a transport initiative which would see growers given the opportunity to have their beet collected, rather than having to deliver it to the factory themselves.
Mr Martin pledged: "Nobody is going to be forced to change their current practices if they don't want to.
"But if growers want to insulate themselves from potential future cost increases by handing that responsibility to British Sugar, then they will be able to do so."