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A continuing lack of rain in Europe has slowed sugar beet harvesting as farmers struggle to lift the crop from parched soil, which could further shrink yields this year. It is reported by Reuters. An unusually warm and dry start to autumn has exacerbated summer drought conditions in parts of Europe and has dashed hopes in some crop belts that sugar beet plants woul...

Biosev SA, the Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer controlled by global commodities trader Louis Dreyfus, is in talks to sell more assets in the country as it seeks to cut debt. It is reported by Reuters. Biosev, which announced the sale of a sugar and ethanol mill a month ago, hired Datagro Financial, the financial services division of Sao Paulo-based consultancy Datagro,...

A total of 27,64 million tonnes of sugarcane were crushed in Center-South Brazil during the second half of September, down 28,2% from the 38,51 million tonnes crushed in the first half of September, and down 31,7% from 40,46 million tonnes crushed in the year-ago period, according to data released by trade association UNICA. The volume crushed was about 280,000 tonnes below market expectations, according to an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts. «This is the first fortnight in which the milling of the curre...

France’s farm ministry on Tuesday cut its estimate of the country’s 2018 sugar beet crop to 40,4 million tonnes from 41,1 million last month as it lowered expected yields. It is reported by Business Recorder. The reduced sugar beet crop estimate was 12,7 percent below last year’s volume but 8,8 percent above the five-year average.

A fire last week at a Saint Louis Sucre plant in northern France has delayed the start of beet processing by around a month, parent company Suedzucker, Europe’s largest refiner, said on Wednesday. It is reported by Reuters. The start of the annual production run was initially set for September 24 but the fire caused serious damage and experts’ appraisals were ongoing, a person clo...

Tereos, one of the world’s largest sugar makers, is seeking to cut its sugar beet production next year by 5% and has asked its cooperative members to reduce plantings, citing difficult market conditions. It is reported by Reuters. A surge in output after the European Union abolished production quotas last year and a 50-percent slump in prices since early 2017 in an oversupplied world market have le...

French sugar cooperative group Tereos said crop samples put this year’s sugar beet yield at 61.8 tonnes per hectare, below the five-year average. It is reported by Reuters. Crop samples also showed that the 2018 crop had a sugar content higher than the five-year average, Tereos said in a statement without giving more details. Tereos delay...

French cooperative group Tereos, one of the world’s largest sugar makers, reported a fall in quarterly earnings as historically low prices outweighed stronger volumes following the liberalisation of the European sugar market. It is reported by Reuters. Tereos’ adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) in the first quarter of its 2018/19 financial year came to 84 million euros (...

India has extended the deadline for export of 2 million tonnes sugar by three months to December. It is reported by Reuters. The world’s second-biggest sugar producer has been trying to reduce sugar stocks after harvesting a record crop. India’s sugar production is expected to ju...

The Minnesota sugar beet crop is expected to be smaller this year, due to the long winter and rainy start to the summer. It is reported by StarTribune. Yield forecasts are down more than a ton per acre — a decline of about 4 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — as farmers gear up for...