Sugar production in the United States comes from both sugarbeets
and sugarcane. For 2012, the National Agricultural Statistics
Service forecasts harvested sugarcane area at 891,000 acres, an
increase of 2.1 percent over last year, and harvested sugarbeet
area at 1.216 million acres, which is practically the same as last
year. In the United States, sugarcane is produced in four States:
Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Hawaii. This chart shows sugarcane
area forecasts by State for the last five crop seasons. Florida and
Louisiana account for over 90 percent of the total sugarcane area
with 2012 area forecasts of 410,000 acres and 420,000 acres,
respectively. Relative to 2011, sugarcane area is forecast to
increase by 13,000 acres (3.3 percent) in Florida and by 10,000
(2.4 percent) in Louisiana. This chart is an update of one found in
the Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook,
SSS-M-287, July 2012.
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