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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

3 months from now "Domino Sugar records record quarterly profits"

[-] derphurr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Haha, fat Americans only get corn syrup in everything.

[-] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The sugar industry can fuck off.

[-] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago
[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

The extreme climate change diet is doing wonders for my figure!

[-] autotldr 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


For scores of other bakers struggling to stay afloat while enduring higher costs for fuel and flour, the stratospheric sugar prices proved to be the last straw, and they closed for good.

Sugar worldwide is trading at the highest prices since 2011, mainly due to lower global supplies after unusually dry weather damaged harvests in India and Thailand, the world’s second- and third-largest exporters.

Wholesale prices had been allowed to rise to help farmers cope with higher costs — partly due to government demands that they not burn their fields, which makes harvesting cheaper but envelops much of Thailand in heavy smog.

Looking ahead, Brazil’s harvest is forecast to be 20% bigger than last year’s, said Kelly Goughary, a senior research analyst at the agriculture data and analytics firm Gro Intelligence.

For some countries, importing more expensive sugar eats up reserves of foreign currency like dollars and euros that also are needed to pay for oil and other crucial commodities, said El Mamoun Amrouk, an FAO economist.

Back in Africa’s largest economy, the struggle of Nigerian bakers is a microcosm of the effects of rising food and fuel costs and the outsized impact of high sugar prices because it’s so ubiquitous.


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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

El Nino

lol

[-] CeruleanRuin 1 points 1 year ago

Just in time for the holiday baking and candy sales season. How convenient.

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