
By Rick Manning In 2020, sugar beet famers in the United Kingdom (UK) got hit with a double-whammy: The domestic sugar beet crop was hit with virus yellows , blighting the entire crop in 2020, and then the government eliminated tariffs on imported cane sugar up to 260,000 tonnes in 2021 , devastating domestic farmers. In almost the exact opposite of what you might expect from the post-Brexit UK — […]