Domestic Sugar Program-FY 2025 Reassignment of the Overall Sugar Marketing Allotment, Cane Sugar and Beet Sugar Marketing Allotments and Company Allocations and No Actions Under the Feedstock Flexibility Program
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing this notice to: revise fiscal year (FY) 2025 (crop year 2024) beet sugar allocations to sugar beet processors; stat...
Commodity Credit Corporation, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing this notice to: revise fiscal year (FY) 2025 (crop year 2024) beet sugar allocations to sugar beet processors; state cane sugar allotments and allocations to sugarcane processors; and to reassign FY 2025 cane sugar marketing allocations to raw cane sugar imports already anticipated. These actions apply to all domestic beet and cane sugar marketed in the United States from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025. USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) also announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2024, which runs from Oct. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carlann Unger; telephone: (773) 573-5163; or email:
Carlann.Unger@usda.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Reassignments of FY 2025 Beet Sugar Allocations and Cane Sugar Allotments and Allocations
In accordance with section 359e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1359ee), after evaluating each sugar beet and sugarcane processor's ability to market its full allocation, USDA is transferring FY 2025 allocations from sugar beet processors with a surplus allocation to those with a deficit allocation. Similarly, USDA is transferring FY 2025 allocations from Florida sugarcane processors with a surplus allocation to Louisiana sugarcane processors with a deficit allocation. USDA has determined that, after these actions, domestic cane sugar supplies are still inadequate to fill the FY 2025 cane sugar marketing allotment.
In accordance with 7 U.S.C. 1359ee(b)(1), USDA is reassigning 500,000 STRV of the cane allotment deficit to raw cane sugar imports already anticipated, given the absence of any CCC stocks of sugar. In Table 1 below, the amount of change in each processor's allocation is in the column labeled “Reassignments.” Each processor's allocation resulting from these changes is shown in the column labeled “Revised FY25 Allocations.”
USDA is not reassigning any FY 2025 beet allocations to raw cane sugar imports at this time given the uncertainty about how much beet sugar will be produced from new crop sugar beets in the final two months (August-September) of FY 2025.
Table 1—FY 2025 Revised Beet and Cane Allotments and Allocations
[Short tons, raw value]
Distribution
Initial FY25
allotments &
allocations
Reassignments
Revised FY25
allocations
Beet Sugar
5,682,293
0
5,682,293
Cane Sugar
4,772,708
−500,000
4,272,708
Imports
500,000
500,000
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Total OAQ
10,455,000
0
10,455,500
Beet Processors' Marketing Allocations
Amalgamated Sugar Co
1,216,622
71,485
1,288,108
American Crystal Sugar Co
2,089,791
−77,569
2,012,222
Michigan Sugar Co
586,842
31,949
618,791
Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op
394,629
20,636
415,266
So. Minn Beet Sugar Co-op
766,929
−59,388
707,541
Western Sugar Co
579,901
1,652
581,552
Wyoming Sugar Company, LLC
47,579
11,234
58,813
Total Beet Sugar
5,682,293
0
5,682,293
State Cane Sugar Allotments
Florida
2,690,953
−611,752
2,079,201
Louisiana
2,081,755
111,752
2,193,506
Texas
0
0
0
Total Cane Sugar
4,772,708
−500,000
4,272,708
Cane Processors' Marketing Allocations
Florida:
Florida Crystals
1,107,936
−383,199
724,737
Growers Co-op. of FL
484,063
−73,170
410,893
U.S. Sugar Corp
1,098,954
−155,383
943,571
Total Florida
2,690,953
−611,752
2,079,201
Louisiana:
Sugar Growers and Refiners
1,445,222
55,879
1,501,101
M.A. Patout & Sons
636,533
55,873
692,406
Total Louisiana
2,081,755
111,752
2,193,506
* Values may not sum to column total due to rounding.
USDA will closely monitor stocks, consumption, imports and all sugar market and program variables on an ongoing basis and may make program adjustments during FY 2025 if needed.
USDA Announces No Actions Under Feedstock Flexibility Program
USDA does not currently expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2024.
The next quarterly estimate regarding the Feedstock Flexibility Program will occur on or before September 1, 2025.
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90 FR 33360
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“Domestic Sugar Program-FY 2025 Reassignment of the Overall Sugar Marketing Allotment, Cane Sugar and Beet Sugar Marketing Allotments and Company Allocations and No Actions Under the Feedstock Flexibility Program,” thefederalregister.org (July 17, 2025), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2025-13367/domestic-sugar-program-fy-2025-reassignment-of-the-overall-sugar-marketing-allotment-cane-sugar-and-beet-sugar-marketing.