USDA raises cane sugar imports to deal with demand for non-GMO product
Category: Sugar
(Agri-Pulse) - USDA announced today that it is allowing an extra 200,000 short tons of cane sugar imports to satisfy the Full Story
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U.S.D.A. acts to boost current-year sugar supplies
Category: Sugar
(Food Business News) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 17 said it increased the current-year (2015-16 ending Sept. 30) domestic sugar Overall Allotment Quantity (O.A.Q.), reassigned some projected surplus domestic sugar marketing allotments and reassigned part of the surplus cane sugar marketing allotment to raw cane sugar imports. Full Story
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Sugar Industry Headed for a Shake-Up
Category: Sugar
(Wall Street Journal) - Sweeping changes to the trade barriers governing the sugar industry are redrawing the map for one of the commodity world’s most protected markets. Full Story
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Kingsman Cuts Sugar Deficit Forecast by 29% on Giant Brazil Crop
Category: Sugar
(Bloomberg) - A record sugar crop in Brazil’s center south, the main growing region of the world’s largest producer, means this season’s global shortage will be 29 percent smaller than previously thought, according to Kingsman Full Story
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As Big Candy Ditches GMOs, Sugar Beet Farmers Hit A Sour Patch
Category: Sugar
(NPR) - Sugar, you might think, is just sugar, no matter where it comes from. But not anymore. Full Story
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Sugar rallies before Brazil Senate vote, coffee taps highs
Category: Sugar
(Reuters) - ICE raw sugar rallied nearly 5 percent and neared a 1-1/2-year high on Wednesday as speculators Full Story
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U.S. sugar liquefiers transform sweetener market as prices rally
Category: Sugar
(Reuters) - A small, but flourishing U.S. industry of liquefied sugar makers is playing an outsized role in fueling the longest rally in years in prices in one of the world's biggest sweetener markets. Full Story
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U.S. sugar beet farmers to grow record crop, unfazed by non-GMO trend
Category: Sugar
(AgWeek) - U.S. sugar beet farmers are expected to reap a record harvest next year, undeterred by a trend among some Full Story
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U.S. 2017 sugar carryover seen down 5%
Category: Sugar
(Baking Business) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates on May 10 projected U.S. sugar carryover on Oct. 1, 2017, at 1,657,000 short tons, raw value, down 86,000 tons, or 4%, from an Full Story
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Sugar Ends at One-Week Low as Speculators Take Profits
Category: Sugar
(Nasdaq) - Raw-sugar futures dived to one-week low Thursday as traders took profits following three weeks of steady Full Story
