The mass media has no idea what they are even saying. Sugar production comes from GMO Sugar Beets. The beet pulp and other plant byproducts go into all sorts of food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and animal feed products. The majority of all sugar sold in grocery stores is beet sugar, not cane sugar. Beet sugar crops are essentially grown in potato growing states. Idaho, Nebraska, Dakotas, Iowa, etc...
A former neighbor was involved in the design of a HUGE beet processing plant up in that part of the world 25-30 years ago. To make sugar.
Iowa does not grow commodity quantities of potatoes or sugar beets. I don’t think Nebraska does either.