[Federal Register: October 16, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 200)]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Commodity Credit Corporation
Domestic Sugar Program--Revisions of 2002-Crop Sugar Marketing
Allotments and Allocations
AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to announce that the Commodity Credit
Corporation (CCC) has reassigned the unused 2002-crop (Fiscal Year
2003) allocations among cane and beet sugar processors. This
announcement lists the final revised 2002-crop sugar marketing
allotments and allocations. This reassignment is effective September
26, 2003, and applies to all domestic cane and beet sugar marketed for
human consumption in the United States from October 1, 2002, through
September 30, 2003.
ADDRESSES: Barbara Fecso, Dairy and Sweeteners Analysis Group, Economic
Policy and Analysis Staff, Farm Service Agency, USDA, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., STOP 0516, Washington, DC 20250-0516; telephone (202) 720-4146; FAX (202) 690-1480; e-mail: barbara.fecso@usda.gov
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Fecso at (202) 720-4146.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 359e(a) of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended by the Farm Security and Rural
Investment Act of 2002, requires a periodic review to determine (in
view of current sugar inventories, estimated sugar production, expected
marketings and other pertinent factors) whether (1) any sugarcane
processor will be unable to market the sugar covered by the portion of
the State cane sugar allotment allocated to the processor; and (2) any
sugar beet processor will be unable to market its allocation. Section
359e(b)(1)(B) further provides for the reassignment of the estimated
quantity of a State deficit proportionately to the allotments for other
cane sugar States (depending on each State's capacity to market) when a
State does not have the capacity to fulfill its allotment among its own
processors.
In September 2003, sugarcane and sugar beet processors submitted
revisions of their 2002-crop production and ending stocks estimates to
CCC for the purpose of calculating a final reassignment. The
allotments/allocations were calculated for the cane and beet sectors as
follows:
Cane Sector:
[sbull] First, 14,878 short tons, raw value (STRV) of allocation
were taken from Louisiana processors with surplus allocation and
reassigned to processors with surplus supply within Louisiana (attached
table, column C). This amount was insufficient to cover Louisiana's
overall shortfall.
[sbull] Then, the excess allotment of 11,100 STRV for Hawaii was
redistributed to the remaining cane states (attached table, column D).
Beet Sector:
[sbull] Using August survey data for the current year, it was
determined that three beet sugar processors had 2002-crop allocation
that would not be used while three processors showed an allocation
shortfall. The surplus allocation of 8,679 STRV from the first three
was surrendered and reassigned to other three (attached table, column
D).
Two organizational changes are recognized in this Federal Register
announcement:
1. The merger of M.A. Patout & Sons, Raceland Sugars and Sterling
Sugars into M.A. Patout & Sons--a Louisiana cane processor with a
single allocation.
2. The September 8, 2003, sale of all assets of the Pacific
Northwest Sugar Company (PNS) to the American Crystal Sugar Company
(ACS). In accordance with section 359d (b)(2)(F) of the Agriculture
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, CCC permanently transferred the
beet sugar allocation of PNS to ACS.
The final revised 2002-crop sugar marketing allotments and
allocations are listed in the following table:
Fiscal Year 2003 Sugar Marketing Allotments and Allocations
[Revised September, 2003]
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D New--
B Last C New--cane reassignments E New
allotment/ reassignments across all allotment/
allocation within States processors by allocation
sector
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(short tons, raw value)
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Overall Beet/Cane Allotments:
Beet Sugar.................................. 4,708,341 0 0 4,708,341
Cane Sugar (includes P. Rico)............... 3,954,660 0 0 3,954,660
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Total OAQ............................... 8,663,000 .............. .............. 8,663,000
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Beet Reassignment to CCC.................... 174,000 .............. .............. 174,000
Allotment Available to Beet................. 4,534,341 .............. .............. 4,534,341
Allotment Available to Cane................. 3,954,660 .............. .............. 3,954,660
Beet Processors' Marketing Allocations:
Amalgamated Sugar Co........................ 976,021 .............. 0 976,021
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American Crystal Sugar Co................... 1,654,335 .............. 7,411 1,661,746
Holly Sugar Corp............................ 299,100 .............. 0 299,100
Michigan Sugar Co........................... 340,509 .............. 0 340,509
Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op...................... 305,067 .............. 36 305,103
Monitor Sugar Co............................ 174,268 .............. -1,554 172,714
So. Minn Beet Sugar Co-op................... 300,785 .............. 1,232 302,018
Western Sugar Co............................ 446,772 .............. -4,853 441,919
Wyoming Sugar Co............................ 37,483 .............. -2,272 35,211
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Total Beet Sugar........................ 4,534,341 .............. 0 4,534,341
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State Cane Sugar Allotments:
Florida..................................... 2,104,337 .............. 6,201 2,110,538
Louisiana................................... 1,381,212 .............. 4,366 1,385,578
Texas....................................... 178,326 .............. 534 178,860
Hawaii...................................... 290,784 .............. -11,100 279,684
Puerto Rico................................. 0 0 0
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Total Cane Sugar........................ 3,954,660 .............. 0 3,954,660
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Cane Processors' Marketing Allocations:
Atlantic Sugar Assoc........................ 163,777 .............. 0 163,777
Growers Co-op. of FL........................ 389,088 .............. 1,219 390,307
Okeelanta Corp.............................. 448,274 .............. 3,568 451,842
Osceola Farms Co............................ 268,661 .............. 1,414 270,076
U.S. Sugar Corp............................. 834,536 .............. 0 834,536
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Total................................... 2,104,337 .............. 6,201 2,110,538
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Alma Plantation............................. 77,257 4,847 1,422 83,526
Caire & Graugnard........................... 6,091 474 139 6,704
Cajun Sugar Co-op........................... 106,711 0 0 106,711
Cora-Texas Mfg. Co.......................... 121,906 1,799 528 124,232
Harry Laws & Co............................. 61,992 2,330 684 65,006
Iberia Sugar Co-op.......................... 64,543 -3,087 0 61,456
Jeanerette Sugar Co......................... 63,626 0 0 63,626
Lafourche Sugars Corp....................... 64,470 0 0 64,470
Louisiana Sugarcane Co-op................... 81,471 740 217 82,429
Lula Westfield, LLC......................... 147,840 4,688 1,376 153,904
M.A. Patout & Sons.......................... 387,454 -2,060 0 385,394
St. Mary Sugar Co-op........................ 89,485 -3,600 0 85,885
So. Louisiana Sugars Co-op.................. 108,366 -6,131 0 102,235
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Total................................... 1,381,212 0 4,366 1,385,578
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Texas:
Rio Grande Valley........................... 178,326 .............. 534 178,860
Hawaii:
Gay & Robinson, Inc......................... 64,298 .............. -3,600 60,698
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company......... 226,486 .............. -7,500 218,986
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Total................................... 290,784 .............. -11,100 279,684
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Puerto Rico:
Agraso...................................... 0 .............. 0 0
Roig........................................ 0 .............. 0 0
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Total................................... 0 .............. 0 0
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Signed in Washington, DC on October 3, 2003.
James R. Little,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 03-26175 Filed 10-15-03; 8:45 am]
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