Europe's Freeze Casts a Cloud on Region's Sugar Output Boom
- Cold hurts sugar-beet leaves in top producer France, CWG says
- Frost forecast in eastern Germany, south Poland Tuesday night
Harvested sugar beet sits in a pile near Diss, U.K., on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. Lower European sugar prices this year have had disparate results -- easing input costs for European-based packaged-food makers, while hurting sugar producers' sales.
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Efforts by farmers to bolster sugar output in the world’s top beet producer before a new quota-free regime begins may be blown off course by the weather.
Growers have been hoping to benefit from the end to a cap on European Union supplies from October. Tropical Research Services is among analysts forecasting output will rise by almost a fifth, led by top three producers France, Germany and Poland.