One of the main functions of agricultural staff in British Sugar is to act as the link between the growers and the factory itself. So we help them with decision-making on how to grow the crop, where to grow the crop, and also we determine how much crop they can grow.
 

So within my role I get involved in selling LimeX as the co-product of the factory process as well as topsoil, so we deal with lots of different customers, both farmers and non-farmers, and the construction industry as well. 
 

The job itself does involve working on your own, however your team is always on hand and you constantly communicate with your team to try to get the best strategy as to how you're going to achieve the beet-growing season and also get the beet delivered to the factory.  So although you do work on your own in the field at times, if you're not talking to your team members you're talking to a grower instead.
 

Since being with British Sugar by far my biggest achievement is passing both my professional qualifications (the BASIS And FACTS Course) and to complete both of those in nine months while maintaining my work standards on the agricultural graduate training programme, as well as other work given to me, such as business projects from the company, that was by far the biggest achievement I've had since joining the company.
 

Having done the agricultural graduate programme, I can now focus my career on being a successful Area Manager.  However, if a few years down the line I want to diversify and go into agricultural research and development, or yield initiatives, or many other programmes within the agricultural department of British Sugar, the company very easily enables that diversity.