Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
Company typeAgricultural marketing cooperative
FoundedJuly 1960
FounderGeorge Wedgworth
Headquarters,
Area served
Florida
Productsraw sugar
Members54
Websitewww.scgc.org

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida is an agricultural enterprise that harvests, transports and processes sugarcane grown primarily in Palm Beach County, Florida and markets the raw sugar and blackstrap molasses through the Florida Sugar and Molasses Exchange. The Cooperative is made up of 45 grower-owners who produce sugarcane on approximately 70,000 acres, located in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA). The raw sugar is marketed to one of the ASR Group's sugar refineries. The Cooperative produces more than 350,000 tons of raw sugar annually.