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BERTIE is staring at his future. On the horizon, he can see the steam from the chimneys at the Bury St Edmunds British Sugar factory!
In the UK, sugar beet is usually harvested between September and the end of the year. BERTIE will be hand dug with a traditional beet fork and then topped (to remove the leaves). He will then be washed and the amount of sugar inside him determined in our tare house at Broom's Barn. The rest of the beet in the field are topped and dug up by machine and left in clamps to await delivery to the factory. When the lorry comes to collect them, they are cleaned of excess soil as they are loaded. Once at the sugar factory the sugar content is determined and they are processed - chopped up and boiled (which extracts the sugar). The steam produced as a by-product of the boiling is used to generate electricity, before going up the chimneys. Animal food is another important by-product of the processing.
Once BERTIE has been analysed at Broom's Barn he will go to the factory. |
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