NPR: America Will Import More Sugar This Year Than It Has in 4 Decades
For Dan Younggren, who grows sugar beets in the northwest corner of Minnesota, 2019 was a year of plagues. First came the water. “Ten inches, up to almost 20 inches of rain,” Younggren says. The fields in his region were so wet that farmers couldn’t work in them. “After that came the snowstorm, barreling up…