Barbara Boxer: “My growers tell me that they would be willing to purchase the plant from the Southern Minnesota Company. Southern…”

“My growers tell me that they would be willing to purchase the plant from the Southern Minnesota Company. Southern Minnesota would include 64,200 tons raw value of sugar allotment in selling the plant to California sugar beet growers. With a guarantee that Congress would provide 53,500 tons raw value in additional sugar allotment for California equaling a total allocation of approximately 117,000 tons raw value, the purchase of the Mendota refinery by California's sugar beet growers would be economically viable. Since it will take approximately 53,500 tons raw value in additional sugar allotment in California to keep the Mendota refinery in operation, and 81,700 tons raw value is being reassigned from sugarcane growers this year, perhaps it would be possible to assign the necessary amount of excess sugarcane allocation to California in order to keep the Mendota refinery operating.”