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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:41 pm

Hurricane IRMA

One particularly keen concern for the sugar industry: How badly can the hurricane damage the sugar cane fields, as harvest is set to begin on Oct. 1?


Florida sugar cane accounts for nearly a quarter of sugar produced in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.


The hurricane also could potentially impact sugar prices through oil and ethanol prices, said James Liddiard, analyst at Agrilion Commodity Advisors in New York.

Sugar prices often track energy prices as petroleum is a key input cost and millers can divert cane to sugar or ethanol.


Hurricane Irma is expected to impact the U.S. along the eastern coast of Florida, according to the National Weather Service, before moving on to Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina — states known for cotton, grain and livestock production.


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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/07/from-su ... -irma.html
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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:43 pm

Sugar: Why You Should Buy It Now
By Michael DylanCommodities

Jun 04, 2017

Sugar commodity is trading substantially below the cost of production.

When the July Sugar price drops down to 14 cents per pound, it is an excellent opportunity to buy sugar.

Sugar could drop down to 12 cents per pound and at that time more contracts could be purchased.


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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:51 pm

Sugar Is The New Tobacco: Coca Cola Faces Headwinds

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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:52 pm

TRADINGThis Commodity Could Rise 31% Over the Next Year

I want to buy when everyone else has given up… when no one else can stomach the idea of buying.

Sugar has crashed. The price per pound is down nearly 60% since peaking in 2010

The simplest way to own sugar is the iPath Bloomberg Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN (SGG). SGG shares are up double digits in a little more than a month.


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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:43 pm

Brazil's farmers dump sugar for soy as trade war boosts Chinese demand

by Marcelo Teixeira

The nation’s soy plantings have expanded by 2 million hectares in two years - an area the size of New Jersey - while land used for cane shrank by nearly 400,000 hectares.

The Asian nation paid $20.3 billion last year for 53.8 million tonnes of soybeans from Brazil, nearly half its output — and up from 22.8 million tonnes in 2012.

Brazilian soybean exports to China rose to nearly 36 million tonnes in the first half of 2018, up 6 percent from a year ago. In July, they surged 46 percent from the same month a year earlier to 10.2 million tonnes.

About 60 cane mills have closed in the past five years in Brazil’s center-south cane region. About 270 that remain open must fight harder than ever to secure cane supplies.


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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Tue Sep 25, 2018 10:13 pm

This is the World’s Cheapest, Most Hated Commodity Right Now

by Dr. Steve Sjuggerud

Based on how far sugar has fallen… and how hated it is based on real-money traders… it’s easy to see why legendary commodities investor Jim Rogers quickly named it his favorite commodity right now.

I’m a bit more conservative than Jim… I would prefer to wait for the uptrend before piling in. But sugar is cheap and hated today. It’s definitely worth putting on your list for upcoming buys…


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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:03 am

A global sugar binge has surprised even the world’s top traders

Marvin G. Perez, Manisha Jha & Fabiana Batista

Sugar demand is rebounding just as production in Brazil, the European Union and Thailand are under stress.

Czarnikow expects consumption to rise 2% after falling for the first time in 40 years, Citigroup forecasts an increase of 0.9%, while JPMorgan Chase & Co. expects a gain of 1%.

Refiners in Indonesia, the world’s largest importer of raw sugar, are set to bring in 10% more this year, according to the nation’s Sugar Refiners Association. China bought a record 5.3 million tons of sugar in 2020 after Beijing relaxed control on those imports above low-tariff rate quotas, customs data showed.


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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:16 am

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By the 1960s, it was pretty obvious that sugar contributed to health problems.

Several studies had already been published suggesting that excess sugar consumption was a major cause of coronary heart disease.

This was a problem for the Sugar Research Foundation— an industry group dedicated to promoting the consumption of sugar.

The organization decided to fund its own ‘studies’ meant to discredit all the other research saying that sugar was bad.

In fact, the Sugar Research Foundation directed its funding on studies which exonerated sugar and instead blamed fat for people’s poor health.

For one study that was conducted in 1967, for example, the Sugar Research Foundation paid what would be about $50,000 in today’s money to a Harvard scientist to fund the research.

The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and it claimed that all the previous research blaming sugar for America’s health problems was totally incorrect because the research methodologies were wrong.

But they then used the exact same methodology to conclude that fat was the actual culprit to America’s health crisis.

Naturally, it was never disclosed that the Sugar Research Foundation funded the research.

Yet this study went on to influence how doctors, dieticians, and the American public would view the relative risks of sugar versus fat, for decades.

Anyone who had claimed back in the late 1960s that the study was fake news from the sugar industry would have been called a conspiracy theorist and a science denier.

But decades later we know the truth.

This isn’t so different from today.

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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby behappyalways » Sun Aug 15, 2021 8:48 am

Frost Bites Brazilian Sugar Crop As Prices Zoom Higher
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Re: Sugar & Stevia

Postby winston » Thu Aug 19, 2021 8:22 am

Sugar extends rally with Brazil weather having lingering effect

by Khadija Kothia

Sugar prices have increased after extreme drought and frost damaged crop supply in Center-South Brazil, where most of the world’s supply is produced.

The weather, the worst in more than two decades, means the country’s sugarcane crop will be reduced for a second straight year.

“A global deficit in production for next season is probably a foregone conclusion, and it now remains to see how big.”


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