Sugar’s Coast-to-Coast Reach

QUICK FACTS

11,000 beet and cane farmers produce about 9 million tons of sugar a year on 2 million acres.
Sugar creates more than 151,000 U.S. jobs in more than two dozen states and adds more than $23 billion to the U.S. economy.
Reliably supplies more than 60 different sugar products to 345 million American consumers.

Farmers own most of the country’s sugar companies. We’ve literally bet the farm that our businesses will succeed, so we are always striving to improve. In fact, my area boasts the most efficient sugarbeet producers in the world.”

Dan YounggrenSugarbeet Grower

We are asking Congress, especially with the Farm Bill, to help us stay in business and keep our communities going, because we are the backbone of this country.”

Ronda PerrySugarcane Grower

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