The Commodity Credit Corporation has announced the 2019 crop year rates for marketing assistance loan rates for sugar. For Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, the loan rate for refined beet sugar is 25.02 cents. The marketing allocations for beet processors include just over two million short tons for American Crystal Sugar Company. For Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, the allocation is 391,000 short tons and Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative is at 760,000 short tons. All of those figures are down from in initial USDA allocation in 2018.
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