date:May 12, 2016
griculture forecast on Tuesday and data since 1959/1960.
The estimate indicates that beet farmers are remaining resolute even as food manufacturers shun GMO crops like their beet sugar.
Next years rising beet production coincides with a 5-percent drop in cane production to 3.62 million tons due to the closing of a cane mill in Hawaii.
Beets, which represent nearly 60 percent of total U.S. sugar output, have seen record yields since the widespread adoption of genetically-engineered seeds in 20