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Sugar beet was not grown on a large scale in the United Kingdom until the mid-1920s when 17 processing factories were built, following war-time shortages of imported sugar cane.

One factory had, however, been built by the Dutch at Cantley in Norfolk in 1912.

Sugar beet seed from France was listed in the annual catalogues of Gartons Agricultural Plant Breeders from that firm's inception in 1898 until the first of their own varieties was introduced in 1909.