A mobile field harvesting process for harvesting and further processing sugar-containing crops, such as sweet sorghum, includes cutting the crop, chopping the crop, and reducing the crop to the crops separated juice and solids in the field. Separation is carried out using a chopper and a juicer. The juicer may be a screw press. The juice may be stored and fermented on the farm, followed by distillation by a mobile distillation process to separate the alcohol from the stillage.