He had planted 172 acres (70 hectares) of sugar beet on his 1,000 acre (404 hectare) arable farm. "There's a big area of the field that's gone so wet the crop's gone rotten and if we sent it into ...
Sugar farming is very profitable, with sugarcane farms having a 24.3% greater and sugar beet farms having a 54.2% greater net income per acre than other forms of farming. Because sugar farms are ...
At the time, sugar beets were a new crop in the United States and important to the farm industry. Through careful analysis of the chemistry of sugar beets and Nebraska soil, Lloyd and her colleagues ...