agricultural · input
Temperate root crop supplying ~20% of world sugar; EU, US, and Russia are primary producers; beet juice extraction yields sucrose without the mill-refinery split of the cane chain
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Source countries
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Companies
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Goods affected
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Claims on record
What depends on it
1 essential American goods rely on sugar beet somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Where it comes from
Share of global supply, by country.
| Country | Share of supply |
|---|---|
| DEGermany | 12% |
| RURussia | 12% |
| FRFrance | 11% |
| USUnited States | 8% |
| TRTurkey | 5% |
| UAUkraine | 5% |
| GBUnited Kingdom | 4% |
| PLPoland | 4% |
Who makes it
6 companies produce sugar beet.
Europe's largest sugar producer and the world's second-largest by volume; processes ~30 Mt of sugar beet/yr across Germany, Poland, France, Czech Republic, and other EU states; produces ~4 Mt/yr of white sugar; also a major bioethanol and starch producer.
Europe's second-largest sugar company; ~5% global sugar beet market; operations in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Slovakia; also Australia (sugar cane) and US (beet). Farmer-owned cooperative structure similar to American Crystal Sugar.
French agricultural cooperative and second-largest sugar group globally; major producer of vital wheat gluten, wheat starch, and ethanol from wheat. Plants in Normandy (Lillebonne) and Belgium. Has a bioplastics partnership with Futerro using wheat proteins.
Largest US sugar beet cooperative; owned by ~2,900 growers in the Red River Valley (Minnesota/North Dakota); operates 5 beet factories producing ~2.5 Mt/yr of refined beet sugar — roughly 15% of all US sugar consumption.
UK's sole sugar beet processor; Associated British Foods subsidiary; operates 4 factories in Eastern England (Wissington, Cantley, Bury St Edmunds, Newark); processes virtually all UK sugar beet (~7 MT/year). Wissington is Europe's largest sugar beet processing factory.
Austrian agro-industrial group; produces 50,000 tonnes of vital wheat gluten annually at its Pischelsdorf wet starch mill (€100M investment in second plant, 2019). Also produces ActiProt high-protein GMO-free animal feed as a co-product.
