IFA urges beet growers to say 'yes' to Greencore
Martin Healy, a spokesman for midlands growers said on Tuesday that they would also answer 'yes', in order to protect their quota rights - even though they believe that growing beet this year is "flogging a dead horse" (The Midland Beet Growers have reversed earlier advice to members not to respond to Greencore, given by the group before the letters went out last week).
IFA's Sugar Beet Chairman Peadar Jordan warned growers they would effectively terminate their individual contractual rights with Greencore, by not answering the letter from the company, or answering 'no'. The legal advice to IFA was that terminating their contractual rights would be inadvisable in advance of finalisation of restructuring and diversification compensation for the EU sugar market reform.
