Maria Scott, Sugar Association scientific affairs consultant, encourages sugarbeet farmers to share the National Real Sugar Day lesson plan with their local educators.
Neil Juhnke grew up on a farm near Larimore, North Dakota, and has spent his career in the agricultural processing industry. He has enjoyed the past few months of his new job at Michigan Sugar Co.
Because of dry weather in the fall of 2022 and a late spring in 2023, there was some carryover of a defoliant used on edible beans in the fall that hurt beets planted into those fields.
Farmers who grow sugarbeets for American Crystal Sugar began harvesting on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Farther south, Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op in Wahpeton, North Dakota, delay its pre-pile harvest.