date:Sep 17, 2018
d States cane and sugar beet producers, do not compete on the world market as all its production is consumed domestically.
Another speaker to address the sugar conference was David Thompson, a sugar beet producer and board member of the Red River Valley Sugar Beet Growers Association of Grand Fork, Minnesota. Thompson described sugar beet farming in a picture presentation to the gathered sugarcane producers.
Thompson said he is a fourth-generation farmer and third-generation sugar beet grower.