About The Dyergram
B.W. Dyer has been specialists in the sweetener industry for over 100 years. The editor of the Dyergram, Nick Kominus, has been in the sugar industry for more than half a century and keeps a close watch on the variables that influence current trends in the market.
The Dyergram is our bi-weekly newsletter that pulls information from many sources and relates it to the sweetener market. In February and August special reports are issued for the International Sweetener Colloquium and the International Sweetener Symposium. Your subscription to the Dyergram also includes an annual labor contract update in February.
The Dyergram evaluates the impact of events in the marketplace and helps customers anticipate fluctuating prices and demand for sugar.
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Dyergram Quick-Hits - Feb. 12
The Sweetener Users Association has once again called upon the Administration to increase import quotas for raw and refined sugar. The Association has warned that unless meaningful action is taken, the market consequences later this year are likely to be dire. . .Six groups, including the Sierra Club, have filed an injunction with a US District Court in California calling for a ban on the planting and processing of Roundup Ready sugar beets. . .Construction has begun on a large cane sugar refinery in Louisiana. The project, which is a joint venture with Imperial Sugar, Cargill and a cooperative, is scheduled to begin operating in 2011. . .Plans by the state of Florida to buy US Sugar lands are being complicated by the state\'s budget deficit. . .A five-year study of teenagers by the University of Minnesota found no link between the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and obesity.