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Follow on Google News | U.S. Sugar Starts 83rd Annual Sugarcane Harvest October 1By: United States Sugar Corp. "We’ve been flooded both with rainfall and subsidized Mexican sugar,” said Judy Sanchez, senior director of corporate communications and public affairs. “The results are both a smaller crop and sugar prices that have dropped 50% in the last two years.” Sanchez said that U.S. Sugar expects to produce about seven million tons of sugarcane, harvesting approximately 6.54 million tons of sugarcane for processing at the Clewiston Sugar Factory. U.S. Sugar also delivers contracted cane to the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida and Florida Crystal’s mills. The Clewiston Refinery is projected to produce 14.4 million hundred-weight of refined sugar(720,000 tons) of refined sugar. For the 2012-13 crop, U.S. Sugar produced 7.43 million tons of sugarcane, with 6.73 million tons of that processed in Clewiston, producing approximately 770,000tons of raw sugar and 40 million gallons of molasses. “The United States has become the favorite dumping ground for unneeded, subsidized Mexican sugar—a significant portion produced at government-owned factories,” Sanchez said. “Our farms and factory can produce sugar more cheaply and more efficiently than Mexico, but we cannot compete with Mexican government operations that set records for sugar exports this year.” U.S. Sugar’s state-of-the- End
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