Combinable Crops and Sugar Beet Standards

A Red Tractor farm member’s land is often their home, and they care about looking after the British countryside which we all know and love. To do this, they are required to maintain a robust set of standards to become Red Tractor assured.

Red Tractor certified combinable crops and sugar beet growers produce the grains and beets for a wide range of British food and drinks products including flour, cereals and beer.

Our combinable crops and sugar beet standards include:

Combine harvester and tractor in a field

There must be clear
identification of the
product throughout the
supply chain to ensure
full traceability back to
farms.

Anyone working on a
Red Tractor certified
farm must be trained
and demonstrably
competent to carry out
their role.

Red Tractor growers respect the environment and farm in a way that minimises adverse effects on flora/fauna.

Read our Crops & Sugar Beet Standards in detail

Interested in learning more about our farms to pack story?

You can learn more about Red Tractor’s role by watching our “How Do They?” series of films that explores the journeys that farm produce takes before it reaches the consumer.

How do they turn a British root vegetable into Red Tractor assured sugar?

You probably don’t give the origins of sugar a second thought when you’re folding it into your cake mix, spooning it into your morning coffee or sprinkling it on to your cereal – but did you know that it takes six sugar beets to make a 1kg bag of Silver Spoon sugar?

Approximately 1.5 million bags of Silver Spoon sugar are produced every day at the factory in Bury St Edmunds – with each stage of this seamless process following Red Tractor guidelines to guarantee a great quality, traceable product makes it into your morning cuppa.

Join us as we take a journey from field to factory and find out how it’s made.

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How do they put the Red Tractor wheat in Weetabix?

At the Weetabix factory in Northamptonshire, every biscuit is made with wheat farmed within 50 miles of the factory. Once it’s arrived, the wheat is tested, cleaned, flaked, shaped into Weetabix, baked and packaged ready to go to your local supermarket.

This huge production process runs smoothly thanks to the hard work from the team at Weetabix, but every element can also be traced through the Red Tractor assurance scheme to ensure that everything is meeting world-leading standards, all put in place to make sure you can enjoy a delicious and great quality product. Take a look and find out more.

Content correct as at August 2021

How do they turn black seeds into golden oil that’s traceable, safe and farmed with care?

Located in rural Suffolk, Hillfarm Oils grow, press and bottle rapeseed on the farm they’ve been working since the 1980s. Watch the video and meet Red Tractor farm member Sam Fairs to find out how their rapeseed oil is made. The whole process happens on site and every drop of golden oil meets Red Tractor’s strict criteria every step of the way.