date:Aug 13, 2013
r production at 4,800,000 tons, down 90,000 tons, or 2%, from July and down 300,000 tons, or 6%, from 2012, and cane sugar production at 3,653,000 tons, down 100,000 tons, or 3%, from July and down 262,000 tons, or 7%, from a year earlier.
In its first survey-based sugar beet and sugar cane crop forecasts of the season, the U.S.D.A. forecast 2013 U.S. sugar beet production at 30,028,000 tons, down 15% from 2012, based on a forecast average yield of 25.4 tons per acre, down 13% from 2012, and ha