Countryfile: Sugar Beet Harvest
8 March 2026

55 mins
Countryfile
Charlotte Smith and Vick Hope are in the east of England following the journey of Britain鈥檚 sugar beet, 100 years after the first production of home-grown sugar. In Norfolk, Vick joins farmers racing to lift the last of the season鈥檚 crop, while Charlotte heads inside one of the country鈥檚 biggest processing plants to discover how those muddy roots are turned into sugar.
Also, Tom Heap investigates what鈥檚 really in the sewage sludge spread as fertiliser on our fields as the government launches a consultation on reforming how it鈥檚 used in British farming.
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