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A damp, cold start to spring is holding up sugar beet planting in the European Union, raising an early question mark over harvest prospects after last year’s bumper crop.
It is reported by Reuters.
EU sugar beet production surged last year after farmers increased the planted area ahead of the ending of the bloc’s sugar quota system, and as favourable weather b...
Brazil’s Copersucar, the world’s largest sugar merchant, expects sugar output to fall by 5 million tonnes in the new center-south cane crop that starts in April, as mills earmark more cane to ethanol production instead.
It is reported by Reuters.
Copersucar, who partners with Cargill Inc in the world’s largest sugar trader Alvean, said mills in center-south should allocate only 41,5 percent of cane to sugar...
In Southern India sugar mills are reeling under low production and extremely low cane crushing capacity utilisation.
It is reported by SmartInvestor.
While drought has resulted in low capacity utilisation due to lower cane availability, the mills are also having to deal with increasing fixed cost and price falls,...
It looks as if Louisiana’s sugarcane grinding season is going to be an extended one. But there is a good reason for the late finish — an exceptional sugarcane crop.
It is reported by Daily Advertiser.
Most years, the majority of mills complete grinding by the end of December. While some may be finished by then this year, others are scheduled to continue grindi...
The government on Tuesday reduced its forecast for Brazil's 2017/18 sugar cane crop to 635,59 million tonnes, a 3,3% fall from the prior cycle, citing a reduction in planted area.
It is reported by Reuters.
Sugar production is expected to reach 39,46 million tonnes this season, a 0,2% rise from the previous cycle as mills boosted the amount of cane they earmarked for pr...
India has scrapped limits on the quantity of sugar that traders can keep, a government statement said on Tuesday, indicating higher output in the year that began in October.
It is reported by Reuters.
India, the world's top sugar consumer, had imposed inventory limits on traders in the 2016/17 season to keep prices under control as production fell after dry weather...
Chinese sugar refineries are planning to lobby Beijing to increase out-of-quota sugar imports next year, after the government took several steps to curb shipments this year.
It is reported by Reuters.
Major sugar refiners in the world's top buyer of the commodity proposed that the government should resume import permits for sugar at 1,9 million tonnes for 2018...
Sugar beet yield is hitting 100 t/ha along the north Norfolk coast (Great Britain), with crops bolstered by a good level of rain and sun throughout the summer and autumn.
Farmers Weekly reports about it.
Tom Dye, managing director at Albanwise Farming, has lifted about one-third of his 300 ha of sugar beet. ²It’s been a good year, perhaps not a record one...
Cane crushing at the National Cooperative Sugar Mills (NCSM) in Alanganallur here for 2017-18 season was inaugurated on Saturday.
The Hindu reports.
Owing to the drought witnessed across Tamil Nadu, including Madurai, last year, the officials at the mill said that they were targeting to crush only 50,000 tonnes of sugarcane t...
Brazilian mills have hedged 6,24 million tonnes of sugar through New York futures by November 30, or around 23% of expected exports in the 2018/19 season.
Sao Paulo-based Archer Consulting said on Monday, Reuters reports.
That hedging volume is the smallest since the 2013/14 season, Archer said, as mills refrain from fixing prices at the exchange wai...
