After two-plus months of slow appreciation, estandar pricing drifted marginally lower in the first week of August. As a result, estandar was nearly flat from the last four weeks but remains up YOY.

Refined pricing has moved sideways over the past few months but is up nearly a point from the four-week average and up modestly YOY.

Through the end of July, Mexico’s sugarcane crush campaign had reportedly ended, with total production near a three-year high of 6.185 MMT, up 8 percent YOY and up 4 percent from the five-year average.

Cumulative production of low-pol sugar was up 27 percent YOY at 940,252 MT.

Mexico cumulative seasonal production of low-polarity sugar

Source: CNDSCA, McKeany-Flavell
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