The Farmer Bridge Assistance program allocated $1 billion for specialty crops, including sugarbeets. “Nobody is giving any indication about how that pot is going to be divided, but I can tell you that’s a very crowded pool of deserving candidates,” said Neil Rockstad, president, American Sugarbeet Growers Association. “There’s a lot of crops in that the speciality crops’ $1 billion pool, frankly, how they divvy it is yet to be seen.” The demand is there with sugar markets down 42 percent in the past two years. Rockstad the sugar market will dominate the discussion at the upcoming ASGA Annual Meeting. Listen to the full interview.
