Wheaton, Minnesota — Sitting in a pickup rolling up to a sugar beet field on the southern edge of the Red River Valley, farmer Jamie Beyer wants to talk MAHA.

But she doesn’t know if her neighbors do. At least not in the valley, where beet farms and sugar refineries dotting the landscape north to Canada are on the opposing side of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s war on sugar.

“I think my friends are (succumbing) to some sort of political exhaustion,” Beyer said.

In the rural stretches of western Minnesota’s border with North Dakota, President Donald Trump won by big margins in 2024 and many are staunch supporters of his policies. But the momentum of his health czar Kennedy’s signature “Make America Healthy Again” philosophy — targeting production agriculture

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