USDA ERS: Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook July 17, 2025

Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook July 17, 2025

U.S. Sugar Outlook

U.S. 2025/26 Sugar Production Is Lowered

U.S. domestic sugar production for 2025/26 is projected at 9.195 million STRV, down 59,000

STRV from last month, on decreases to beet and cane sugar production (table 1). Beet sugar

output is lowered by 53,000 STRV to 5.097 million STRV, a 225,000-STRV reduction (4 percent)

from 2024/25, solely on lower area planted and harvested reported in the National Agricultural

Statistics Service (NASS) June 30 Acreage report. The national sugarbeet yield is unchanged at

31.674 tons per acre, which is modeled as a function of NASS planting progress for the four

largest sugarbeet-growing U.S. States (Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho, and Michigan) through

week 18 and week 19. NASS will release its initial sugarbeet yield forecast in its August 11 Crop

Production report.

U.S. cane sugar output for 2025/26 is lowered by 6,000 STRV to 4.098 million, solely on

downward adjustment for Florida to 2.010 million STRV, following the processors’ projections

submitted to USDA, Farm Service Agency’s Sweetener Market Data (SMD) report. Despite the

reduction, both the U.S. and Florida cane sugar production reflect year-over-year increases.

Louisiana is unchanged at 2.088 million STRV, implying 6 consecutive years of growth and 4

years of surpassing Florida.

Western Sugar Joined National Sugar Marketing

On July 9, National Sugar Marketing (NSM) emailed customers that Western Sugar (Western) has

joined its marketing cooperative, along with current members Amalgamated Sugar Company

(Amalgamated) and Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative (SMBSC). NSM noted that this

development will expand its geographical reach and thus “strengthen its ability to serve customers

with improved logistical efficiencies and enhanced economies of scale”. Western Sugar has four

facilities that process sugar beets grown in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana.

Amalgamated has three factories for beets grown in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. SMBSC has

one factory in Renville, Minnesota and one in Brawley, California which will close after the current

beet campaign is completed (see the May 2025 Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook footnote 1 for a

brief description of the closure of Spreckels Sugar factory in Brawley).

Vidalina Abadam, coordinator