Alberta Sugarbeet Production From Past Five Years

Published online: Nov 08, 2024 News
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Using information from the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers Association (https://albertasugarbeets.ca/content.php?p=home) and Canadian Sugar Institute, here are some statistics from the past five years of beet production in the province.

The bulk of sugarbeet production takes place in the western province of Alberta but sugarbeets are also grown in southern Ontario. The sugarbeets grown in Ontario are produced by growers in the Ontario Sugarbeet Growers Association (https://ontariosugarbeetgrowers.ca/) who raise 11,300 acres of beets for Michigan Sugar Company and are processed in Michigan.

Alberta beets go to a factory in Taber, which is the only sugarbeet factory in the country.

Official numbers are not yet available for 2024 but there are reports of 28,115 acres of beets were planted.

 

                                    2019                2020                2021                2022                2023

Acres Planted             28,502             30,092             28,312             27,883             25,210

Acres Harvested       15,676             29,657             28,087             27,801             23,516

Total Tonnage           463,018           903,753           877,410           872,420            856,637

Average Yield/Acre  29.80               30.47               31.24               31.37               36.43

Sugar Content           17.89%            19.42%            19.19%            18.21%            19.02%

Note: 45 percent of the 2019 crop remained unharvested due to extreme October weather events.