Countryfile

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Sunday 8 March

Sugar Beet Harvest

Season 2026

Charlotte Smith and Vick Hope explore sugar beet harvesting in the east of England, 100 years after sugar was first grown in this country. In Norfolk, Vick meets farmers racing to lift the last of this year's crop, while Charlotte visits one of the country's biggest processing plants. Plus, Tom Heap investigates what's really in the sewage sludge spread as fertiliser

Countryfile airs on BBC One West Midlands HD at 6:00 PM, Sunday 8 March. (Subtitles, new.)

Topics

Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics

Nature ➝ Animals ➝ Environment

Rural ➝ Agricultural

Vick Hope

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Charlotte Smith

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Tom Heap

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