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Clewiston,
FL — October 1, 2009 — U.S. Sugar is scheduled to start
its 2009-10 sugarcane harvest on October 1 and will begin processing the
first railcars of cane at the Clewiston Sugar Factory later that day. Both
the harvesting and processing operations operate 24/7 during the October
through April harvest season. "The drought broke in May, and with more
normal rainfall over the summer growing season, we are anticipating a slightly
better crop than the weather-shortened crops of the last few years,” said Sanchez
said the company plans to harvest 165,000 acres, which should yield
approximately 6.4 million tons of sugarcane, and the Clewiston Refinery is
projected to produce a record 13.6 million cwt of refined sugar. “Both
the cane and beet sugar harvests are now underway across the country, and
this should continue to ensure that the market has adequate sugar
supplies. Market rumors of domestic sugar
shortages over the past few months have proved groundless. While there currently is a world shortage
of sugar, the USDA is currently projecting a sugar surplus in the U.S. for this
crop year,” Sanchez said. Once
again, the U.S. Sugar program provided for reliable supply and affordable
prices by balancing safe, abundant domestic sugar supplies with sugar imports
from dozens of sugar-producing countries, including free market imports from
Mexico via NAFTA. Like
other All
of the company’s refined sugar products are marketed by United Sugars
Corporation, a marketing cooperative that includes U.S. Sugar and beet sugar
farmers and processors American Crystal Sugar and Minn-Dak
Farmers Cooperative. “If
there are customers having trouble finding a reliable, high quality sugar
supply, have them call United Sugars,” Sanchez said. In
its third year of modernized and consolidated operations, U.S. Sugar’s
state-of-the-art sugar milling and refining operations make its Clewiston
Sugar Factory the world’s largest fully integrated sugar processing facility. ### |
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