Scotland explores sugar beet for biofuel

Written by Jamie Day

Sugar beet growing and processing in Scotland could be a feasible option for the future – but for biofuel and biochemicals manufacture, rather than sugar production. The initiative would help with climate change mitigation and the decarbonisation of industry in line with Scotland’s greenhouse gas reduction targets, as well as growing as the circular economy […]

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A number are already growing for digesters all ready.
Used to be a commercial crop in Fife and Angus until Cupar plant closed many years back.
Having had fodder crops with tonnages leaving English sugar beet crops in their wake in the summer of 2018, but poor in 2019 you would have to be brave to build a processing plant, along with competition with seed potatoes for ground.