The Sugar Anti-Smuggling Office reports clearly indicate that sugar smuggling is rampant in Cebu, Enrique Rojas, president of the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters, informed Bureau of Customs Port Collector Ronnie Silvestre of the Port of Cebu.

Soft drinks in the United States are trending back towards sugar, with the recent announcement by The Dr Pepper Snapple Group that it will switch Dr Pepper back to sugar from high-fructose corn syrup, for a limited time as part of its 125th anniversary celebrations. The reformulated product will also bear nostalgic Dr Pepper slogans and can designs.

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil may produce more sugar and ethanol than expected as cold and dry weather helps boost cane yields in the country’s Center South, the world’s largest producing region, grower Maurilio Biagi Filho said.

The move to minimum till farming and green trash blanketing has led to the significant reduction in sediment movement across cane growing regions. Such is the success of the practice that sediment movement from sugarcane is no longer considered a major priority compared to other water quality concerns.

Gatorade, Wheat Thins Among Products Ditching HFCS for Sugar NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Bowing to consumer demands, major brands are removing high-fructose corn syrup from some of their products in favor of sugar. Few, however, are shouting it from the rooftops as it would cast a shadow on those products that still contain HFCS.

Regina "Gina" Bautista Martin is the new head of the Sugar Regulatory Administration, DAILY STAR sources said last night.