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Beet deliveries shaken
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• A big shake-up of sugar beet haulage contracts is expected following the closure of a British Sugar processing plant in February 2002.
Some hauliers should benefit because average delivery distances will increase when work currently handled by the plant at Kidderminster in Worcestershire is transferred more than 30 miles away to Allscot in Telford.
But Alan Patten, director of Patten Bros in Ilminster, Somerset, says around twothirds of the 16,000 tonnes his company delivers for BS annually will disappear with the closure.
He claims the growers he delivers for have sold their beet quotas to farmers elsewhere in the country because of the increased delivery distances.
"If Kidderminster had stayed open, they would have stayed with it but the extra distance means it is no longer worth it." He says BS's deliver allowance used to be very gener ous but it is no longer worthwhil growing beet a long way from th nearest processing factory.
A spokeswoman for BS say the average delivery distanc for Kidderminster is 26 mile and the average delivery tance for Allscot will be 3 miles. She confirms that grovi ers were given the opportunit to sell their quotas to othe farmers during the summer.