The sugar is packaged into 2,000-pound bulk “totes” for candy and ice cream makers and the like, or into retail bags, canisters and packets for retailers. That involves washing and filtering the sugar and refining it into fine and extra-fine granules and other types of products. The sugar is scooped up by a front-loader into a hopper, and from there it is moved through metal ducts into the plant for processing. Some is more brown than white, but it all gives off a whiff of molasses. The sugar will drop down a chute from the vessel onto a conveyor belt that runs from the dock to a shed, where it’s dumped into enormous piles that resemble the ones made of road salt that are stored around the region. On Tuesday in Baltimore, workers were readying equipment to unload the latest ship - the Daiwon Kalon, laden with raw sugar from Brazil. Extra sugar shipments are expected at each plant. It also supplies sugar to food makers.ĭomino operates two sugar cane refineries in addition to the one in Locust Point in Baltimore, including in Yonkers, New York, and Chalmette, Louisiana. ![]() is owned by Florida-based ASR Group and produces those bright yellow packages of sugar sold at the grocery store. “We’ll be keeping an eye on things,” Johansson said.ĭomino already is the nation’s largest marketer of refined sugar. If demand continues to exceed supply on store shelves and in food manufacturing plants, more sugar imports could be allowed, but they could carry higher tariffs, potentially pushing up consumer prices, the agriculture officials said. Imports from all sugar-producing countries usually total 3 million to 4 million tons a year to supplement about 9 million tons produced domestically. ports this year from Mexico, up from about 1 million tons. ![]() With the increase, an estimated 1.8 million tons will arrive at U.S. There will be far more raw sugar among the extra imports, which would be minimally processed in Mexico before being finished at U.S. The USDA asked the Commerce Department to allow the extra sugar imports last fall - some raw sugar and some already refined into the familiar granular product familiar to consumers. If not, supply could come from Brazil and other countries. It’s not yet known whether that country can spare enough to completely fill the gap, the USDA economists said. Under a separate agreement signed in 2014, Mexico was given the first chance to fill shortages in the U.S. The sugar trade is governed under a long-standing USDA program aimed at protecting U.S. The result was a 10-year low in production, said Rob Johansson, the USDA’s chief economist, coming at a time when the nation’s sweet tooth has pushed demand far higher than a decade ago. Cane grows in Florida, Louisiana and Texas. Sugar beets, grown across a broad swath of the upper United States, from Michigan to Washington state, account for more than half of U.S. In Minnesota, for example, an extremely wet October followed by a hard freeze in early November meant sugar beet fields were too wet to harvest before the beets became frozen in the ground, according to a Minnesota Public Radio report. ![]() Wet and cold weather had the mostly unheard-of effect of harming both sugar beet crops in northern states and sugarcane crops in Southern states.
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