Saturday, 2 October 2010

Brazilian exports of sugar reached a new record in September, 3.35 million tonnes

Volume e receita com exportação de açúcar são recordes em setembro
Grande Prêmio

As exportações brasileiras de açúcar atingiram um novo recorde histórico em setembro, atingindo 3,35 milhões de toneladas. É o terceiro recorde consecutivo, ...

United States - Domestic Sugar Program-FY 2010 and FY 2011 Cane Sugar and Beet Sugar Marketing Allotments and Company Allocations

| Domestic Sugar Program-FY 2010 and FY 2011 Cane ...
Federal Register

This applies to all domestic sugar marketed for human consumption in the. ... raw cane sugar imports—300000 tons to an increase in the raw sugar tariff-rate ...

Friday, 1 October 2010

China's Imported 1 Million Tons Sugar from January to August


China Imported 1 Million Tons Sugar from January to August ...

E-to-China

In August, countries ranked by the quantity of sugar imports was Brazil (247387 tons), Cuba (30700 tons ), Korea (15901 tons ), Australia (2771 tons) and so ...

ZIMBABWE’s sugar production will be enough to meet the country’s needs until March next year, Hippo Valley Estate Ltd Chief Executive Officer Sydney Mtsambiwa says.

No shortage of sugar this year –– Mtsambiwa
Zimbabwe Independent

ZIMBABWE's sugar production will be enough to meet the country's needs until March next year, Hippo Valley Estate Ltd Chief Executive Officer Sydney ...

The effect of dry weather on sugarcane in Brazil and its impact on the next movement market - a quick analysis.

Sugarflows have just created two scenarios comparing the effect on world market sugar prices and trade flows of a 2 million metric tonne change in expected Brazilian production for year 2011/2012.

The quick result is that basis Oct raws No.11 2011, with the lower production (unchanged from this year) figure the level could move as high as c/lb 28.6,

whereas at the higher production level the price is only likely to move to around c/lb 21.15.

(There are of course many other variables taken into account but for this exercise we have only changed the Brazil input)

To see the full output for each scenario the zipped excel file can be found here

http://pil5phil.cachefly.net/ScenarioWithNoIncreasBrazilProduction2011-2012.zip

and here

http://pil5phil.cachefly.net/ScenarioWith2MMTIncreasBrazilProduction2011-2012.zip

(These analyses are produced as a demonstration of the Sugarflows market analysis software)

EU sugar production will decrease to less than 16 mill tons in 2010 (against 17.5 mill tons in 2009). However, this reduction will be offset by sugar carried over from the 2009/10 season.

Uncertainty in the Community sugar market share
FranceAgriMer

Sugar imports into the European market food to August 1, 2010 amounted to 2.1 mill. tn, ie, 150,000 tons less than in the campaign ...

Thailand - A new domestic sugar quota of 2.5 mmt with Thai sugar production expected to be 6.7 mmt, will reduce exports in 2011

DJ Higher Domestic Sale Quota May Hit Thai Sugar Exports In 2011-Trade
SINGAPORE, Sep 30, 2010 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex)

DJ Higher Domestic Sale Quota May Hit Thai Sugar Exports In 2011-Trade. -- The Thai ...

Congo - Saris expects a production of 62,500 tonnes of sugar for the 2010 campaign

Congo : une production de 62.500 tonnes de sucre attendue à la ...
AfriSCOOP


La Société Agricole et de Raffinage Industriel de Sucre (Saris-Congo), étant une des plus grandes sociétés de sucre en Afrique centrale, va réaliser une

United States - Florida's sugar production is projected at 1.785 million tons this season, up from 1.639 million tons in 2009-10, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

Florida's sugar harvesting season to start Saturday
Palm Beach Post

Sanchez said two hard freezes knocked most of the crop back to the ground in late January, but the warm, wet summer conditions have helped. US Sugar

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Guyana - Guysuco are sticking with the current estimate for the second crop at around 185,000 tonnes of sugar

Sugar far behind target
Stabroek News

The problem started this week, according to Bhim, who stressed that the factory is operating satisfactorily despite the problem. However, he admitted that ...

India - Sugar mills in Maharashtra will start crushing for the new 2010-11 season (October-September) mainly from the third week of October.

Maharashtra mills to delay crushing by 2 weeks
istockAnalyst.com (press release)

Mr Patil, who also heads the 7000-tcd Shri Dnyaneshwar Cooperative Sugar Factory at Newasa (Ahmednagar), admitted that crushing 825 lt of cane would be a ...

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Brazil - The number of vessels to load sugar at the NNE ports of Brazil rose to 17 (349,349 mts) today, compared with none a year ago.

Sugar Mills in Brazil's Northeast Step Up Sales Amid Port Backlog in South
Bloomberg Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:25 PM PDT

Sugar mills in northeastern Brazil are accelerating sales to take advantage of higher prices and a port backlog that is delaying shipments from southern producers.

Fiji - "it won't be anywhere near the 120,000 tonnes that was earlier predicted ù we are looking at a figure closer to 90,000 tonnes of sugar produced which is a huge to loss to the farmers

Miller "optimistic" of early crush
Fiji Times

"The four sugar mills have now crushed 1.04 million tonnes of cane and produced close to 81000 tonnes of sugar as of September 27 2010. The total crop ...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Ukrainian sugar refineries as of September 28, 2010, had produced 262,000 tonnes of sugar from newly harvested sugar beets

Ukraine produces 262000 tonnes of sugar
Kyiv Post

Fifty-five sugar refineries are currently engaged in sugar production, whereas there were 31 operating sugar refineries on the same date last year, ...

Russian sugar beet production could fall to 2.7m-2.8m tonnes this year

Bric Food File Russia's sugar crop is not so sweet...
beyondbrics, from the Financial Times,

Australia - Mackay Sugar says recently heavy rain means harvesting and crushing may be suspended for up to two weeks.

Drenching may suspend cane harvest
ABC Online

Mackay Sugar says recently heavy rain means harvesting and crushing may be suspended for up to two weeks. The season was stopped last Monday after falls of ...