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Michigan Sugar Company is the largest beet sugar processor east of the Mississippi River and fourth largest in the United States. The Company is a cooperative owned by approximately 1,200 sugar beet growers, employing 450 year-round employees and 1,750 seasonal employees. It generates nearly $300 million in direct economic activity annually in the local communities in which it operates. Michigan Sugar Company became a cooperative in 2002 and the Monitor Sugar Beet Growers and Monitor's Bay City factory joined the Cooperative on October 1, 2004. Beginning with the 2004 crop, the single grower-owned cooperative now processes all of the sugar produced in the State of Michigan. Michigan Sugar Company annually produces nearly one billion pounds of sugar under the Pioneer and Big Chief brand names.
Michigan Farm Bureau supports continued efforts to minimize negative impacts to the U.S. sugar industry from any trade agreement.
MFB supports extending the extension of the original maturity date of the State of Michigan zero interest loan made in 2001 to the Michigan Sugar Cooperative with conversion to a grant at a later date.
