• Brazil’s Raw Sugar Discount Seen Widening on Bigger 2012-13 Crop Brazil’s Raw Sugar Discount Seen Widening on Bigger 2012-13 Crop

    Sugar output in Brazil’s center south, the country’s main growing region, climbed to 34.1 million metric tons for the 2012-13 season after most harvesting ended, Unica said yesterday. The industry group last month raised its forecast for sugar production from 32.7 million tons. Output there “exceeded all expectations,” said Tom McNeill, a director at Brisbane, Australia-based researcher Green Pool Commodity Specialists Pty.

    Jan 11, 2013

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  • Brazil Sugar Awaiting Loading at Ports Drops 25% in Week Brazil Sugar Awaiting Loading at Ports Drops 25% in Week

    “Center south Brazil’s 34 million tons-plus production for 2012-13 exceeded all expectations, and with good progress on Northern Hemisphere beet and importantly cane crops, it’s hard not to be bearish,” Tom McNeill, a director at Brisbane, Australia-based researcher Green Pool Commodity Specialists Pty., said in a report e-mailed yesterday.

    Jan 10, 2013

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  • Thai sugar crushing picks up; 56,000 T produced Thai sugar crushing picks up; 56,000 T produced

    SINGAPORE: About 1 million tonnes of cane have been crushed in Thailand as the harvest progresses, producing up to 56,000 tonnes of sugar so far, a 28 percent increase from the same year-ago period, dealers said on Wednesday. Thailand, the world's second-largest exporter after Brazil, has slashed its output forecast in the year to October 2013 to 9.4 million tonnes from 10 million due to poor rain. This is, however, in line with traders' estimates of 9.3 million to 9.5 million tonnes.

    Nov 28, 2012

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  • Sugar one of the sweeter commodities Sugar one of the sweeter commodities

    Global demand for sugar has defied initial predictions and remains quite high. The sugar price fell last Friday despite all other commodities experiencing gains.

    Nov 28, 2012

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  • Brazil Area's Cane Crop Seen by Green Pool Rising 6.7% Brazil Area's Cane Crop Seen by Green Pool Rising 6.7%

    Sugar-cane output in Brazil’s center south, the main growing region of the world’s biggest producer, will rise 6.7 percent in the season that starts there in April, according to Green Pool Commodity Specialists Pty.

    Nov 16, 2012

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  • Sugar faces more volatility Sugar faces more volatility

    Volatility continues to plague the sugar price, as growing global supply is met with a lukewarm reaction. Analyst Tom McNeill from Green Pool Commodities says with better-than-expected crops coming off in centre-south Brazil and the prospect of large stockpiles in the United States and Mexico, it seems there is no great rush in demand for sugar.

    Nov 13, 2012

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