| Special note: Historically, the Sweetener Market Data (SMD) published by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) contains "miscellaneous" use, including values for intra-industry sales less receipts, refining losses, and residual inventory adjustments reported by sugarbeet and sugarcane processors and cane sugar WASDE-476-4 refiners.
The September 2009 SMD explains a new method of estimating imported refined sugar in an effort to reduce an increasingly large negative SMD miscellaneous use. FSA will apply the new method to SMD data beginning with 2009/10.
In order to maintain consistency across years, the "Food" and "Miscellaneous" categories for U.S. sugar use in the WASDE report are combined for 2007/08, 2008/09, and 2009/10.
Projected 2009/10 U.S. sugar supply is increased 180,000 tons, raw value, from last month.
Lower production is more than offset by higher beginning stocks and higher imports from Mexico.
Beet sugar production is reduced 300,000 tons based on lower forecast sugarbeet production and lower projected sugar recovery.
Cane sugar production is lowered 12,000 tons based on processor reports of lower harvest area in Hawaii and forecast lower sugarcane production in Texas.
Despite higher forecast sugarcane yields in Louisiana, sugar production is unchanged due to excessive rains during harvest, reducing anticipated sugar recovery. Sugar use is unchanged.
Ending stocks for 2008/09 are increased 227,000 tons from last month's estimate, according to final SMD data. With a small reduction in final total supply, total use is reduced 251,000 tons, reflecting mostly lower combined food and miscellaneous uses.
For Mexico, 2009/10 domestic sugar use is lowered 240,000 metric tons, raw value, while exports are raised by the same amount. The lower use of sugar in Mexico results from updated analysis of macroeconomic factors affecting per capita sweetener use.
For more information visit the USDA-ERS website at www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde |
