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Just how late planting will be depends on how quickly the snow melts, whether more falls in the next couple of weeks and if spring rain exacerbates the wet conditions.
With the recent announcement that Sidney Sugar beet plant will be closing, Eastern Montana sugar beet producers are looking at other options.
The Sugar Assosiation estimates that half the sugar in the United States in supplied by sugar beets and the other hallf by sugar cane.
It was announced that the Sidney Sugar factory will close in mid-April.
Montana sugar refiners expect to wrap up business in January, following a 2022 sugar beet season that dished out a few climate jawbreakers to farmers.