Archive Article: 2000/09/29

29 September 2000

Sugar beet factories opened this week and contractor Andrew Flatt was eager to put his new six-wheeled Agrifac harvester to the test at Barry Hearns Dexters Farm, Bardwell, Suffolk. Uncertainty still hangs over sugar beet growers, however, as Brussels this week went back to the drawing board on reforming the regime. Proposals from farm commissioner Franz Fischler, due on Wednesday, were dismissed as too lightweight.