re: So fake news WBRZ says there isn’t enough sugarcane production

Wouldn't increased sugarcane production be good for Louisiana?

Good friend of mine a very large cane farmer in Cenla and when I spoke to him about this he just laughed and said "bring it on, we can grow more cane than they can consume".

There are many of fields that have been yielded and they will all come back. Esp in the river parishes on airline. colonial sugar or LSR has already begun ramping up facilities and manufacturing to accommodate the demand. Domino is following. And Domino had another big refinery in New York off the Hudson.

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Why was that directed at me?

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Looks like FL LA HI are the only real places its grown. As someone who knows nothing about Louisiana sugar, does it command a premium compared to the typical sugar?

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Hawaii no longer farms sugar cane. The last Hawaiian sugar plantation closed up shop in 2017, I think. It wasn't native to Hawaii, though it was introduced very early. The plantations that ended up booming in the 1800s reshaped the landscape of Hawaii, and not really for the better. In fact, the rise and fall of those plantations (and the fact that they were pretty much just abandoned by their corporate owners) is one of the big players in the eventual fires in Maui, and the fact that fire is now a part of the landscape in Hawaii when it really wasn't prior to the plantations. Outside of volcanic fires, Hawaii never had wildfire regimen, nor a wildfire problem.

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LOL. You can't grow sugarcane where you grow corn. It probably needs very South Florida to do reasonably well.

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Louisiana accounts for 40% of US sugar cane production.

They got them corn crops here too.

If there is any kind of real volume, the US #16 sugar price will go to the stratosphere. We’re the second largest importer of sugar in the world, and we simply don’t have enough acres to support a huge increase in demand- this would also drive the #11 sugar price up globally- because world’s biggest economy and all that.

But, here’s what is going to happen:

Coke will market it as a specialty product, in the glass bottles and all, just like the Mexican Coke you get today.

It will be priced high as giraffe arse, but will be more readily available than the Mexican Coke.

Corn boys happy, Kennedy and Trump happy- “because look at what we did” Coke makes more $ because it will be cheaper to make (due to distribution) than the Mexican product and volume increase will likely reduce production costs vs. Mexico.

US sugar producers- cane and beet both will see a small bump in price.

Anyone who thinks we can ramp up cane and beet production (the end refined sugar is identical) is off their rocker.

Sugar has been a bright spot in commodities for a long time- if we could grow more in LA, FL, and the beet areas, we would.

Texas is done, no one else has the facilities to process it. LA and FL milling capacity is tapped out.

And, you can’t just go “build a mill” Last time I looked, it was over $300MM to build a new mill- outside of the US.

<- Source, 25 years in the global sugar industry.

I’ll go out on a limb and say that Coke knows more about their supply chain than some local news station.