NFU Sugar Board elections results
Meet the three sugar beet growers who have been elected to the NFU Sugar Board to serve a 3-year term, starting in March 2027.
NFU Sugar is delighted to introduce the successful candidates who will be joining the board in March.
The NFU Sugar Board is the democratically-elected representative body of UK sugar beet growers, elected by growers, for growers.
Led by its elected chair, Kit Papworth, the Board sets the strategic direction of NFU Sugar and provides the grower mandate that enables the negotiation team to agree the annual sugar beet contract with British Sugar.
Nominations for three positions on the NFU Sugar Board closed on 22 October.
Following the nomination period, Simon Smith, Sam Godfrey and Jordan Allen have been elected to represent the interests of UK sugar beet growers on the NFU Sugar Board.
Meet your newly elected representatives
Simon Smith
Simon is an arable farmer along the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk Border growing around 40,000 tonnes of sugar beet, alongside wheat, oil seed rape and beans. He also runs a farm contract business and agri-haulage company.
Sam Godfrey
Sam has been a director in a family farming business based in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, which has had an arable enterprise since 2008.
Jordan Allen
Jordan works on his family farm, consisting of 440 ha on the Lincolnshire-Cambridgeshire border.
