The contract options include:
路听听听听听听 A one-year fixed price contract at 拢30/t, for up to 65% of the contract.
路听听听听听听 A one-year contract with a guaranteed base price of 拢25/t, plus a market-linked bonus for up to 100% of the contract.
路听听听听听听 An Index-linked contract (previously called 鈥榝utures-linked鈥�) for up to 50% of the contract.
路听听听听听听 Yield Protection contract at a 拢1/t reduction on the fixed and market-linked bonus contract prices.
路听听听听听听 Transport allowance up to 60 miles for all factories.
路听听听听听听 One year contract holiday for up to 750kt CTE, on first come, first served basis.
路听听听听听听 Plus, an interest-free cash advance option, a late delivery payment and complimentary frost insurance.
NFU Sugar board chair Kit Papworth said: 鈥淚 am pleased we have managed to come to a negotiated agreement with British Sugar for the 2026/27 sugar beet contract.
鈥淭his deal offers growers choices to suit individual business circumstances and balances challenging sugar market conditions and the increasing costs and risks of growing sugar beet here in the UK.鈥�
Keith Packer, Managing Director, British Sugar, said: 鈥淎s the sugar industry continues to face challenging market conditions, I am pleased that we鈥檝e agreed a deal for all, reflecting the current situation.
鈥淭his year鈥檚 contract is the product of many months of hard work with NFU Sugar, giving growers much-needed security and certainty at what is a volatile time for farm businesses.
鈥淲e鈥檙e offering valuable options which include an interest-free cash advance, a market-linked bonus for a share of the upside when the market is favourable, and an index-linked contract for those with a greater appetite for risk and reward.鈥�
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