The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC

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American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials Standing Committee
on Rail Transportation (SCORT) 39th National
Meeting August 28 31, 2005 Coeur dAlene,
Idaho
The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC Grower Owned
by Snake River Sugar Co.
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SUGAR
The Natural Sweetener Only 15 Calories Per
Teaspoon!
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Trivia

• 1. How many calories in a teaspoon of sugar?
• 2. How many calories from sugar in a can of
  soda?
• 3. What is the sugar consumption in the U.S.
  (in tons)?
• 4. What is Amalgamateds share of the U.S.
  sugar market?
• 5. What percent of sugar sold is purchased as
  retail?
• 6. What is the dollar value of sugars
  contribution to the
  
• Idaho economy?

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The farmer is the only man in   our economy who
buys   everything he buys at retail,   sells
everything he sells at   wholesale, and pays the
  freight both ways.  -John F. Kennedy
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Farming looks mighty easy   When your plow is a
pencil   And youre a thousand   Miles from the
corn field.   -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Concerns

• Declining Consumption
• Lifestyle Changes
• Sugar Substitutes
• Sugar Containing Products
• Drought
• Transportation/Energy

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Snake River Sugar Company

• Controls Amalgamated Sugar
• Owned by 1,200 Growers
• 25 Member Board of Directors

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Amalgamateds Progress in Sugar Production Per
Acre
(Est.)
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From 6,000,000 tons of sugarbeets grown and
harvested annually..
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.we could construct from these beets 3 1/2
Great Pyramids..
Great Pyramid 450 feet high
Statue of Liberty 300 feet high
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.if spread out, they could pave a 30 foot wide
highway, 1,866 miles long..from Boise, Idaho to
Indianapolis, Indiana
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From these sugarbeets, we will realize production
of approximately 18,000,000 cwt., or 1.8 billion
pounds of pure granulated sugar.

• Population of Idaho 1.35 million
• Average annual per capita consumption of
  sugar 48 lbs.
• Total annual consumption of sugar in Idaho 64.8
  million lbs.
• If all the sugar produced by Amalgamated in one
  year was consumed
• in Idaho alone, it would supply todays
  population for 28 years.

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Of the 18,000,000 cwt. of sugar Amalgamated Sugar
produces annually, 125,000 cwt. is sold in
Idaho.

• This equates to only 0.7 of the total produced.

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Amalgamateds Top Ten Customers
Gilster Mary Lee -Cakes, Cookies, Drink
Mixes Interstate Brands -Hostess, Dolly
Madison Pepsi Bottling Company -Gatorade, Frito
Lay, Quaker Dawn Food Products -Industrial
Bakery Mixes Westco Products -Donuts,
Cakes, Fruit Fillings Continental Mills
-Bisquick, Krustez Mixes Ryan Milk
-Milk, Ice Cream, Pudding Dean Foods
-Cream, Pudding, Cool Whip Indiana Sugars
-Amalgamated Sugar Resale International
Multifoods -Dry Mixes, Syrups, Icings
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Seventeen 1 cup servings of Trix (13 g. each)
 
Eleven boxes of Jello (19 g. each)
Twelve Hershey Almond candy bars (18 g. each)
Eight Snickers bars (29 g. each)
Eleven Pearsons Nut Rolls (20 g. each)
Eleven Almond Joys (20 g. each)
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Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two
blades of grass to grow where only one
grew before, deserves better of mankind,
and does more essential service
to his country than the whole
race of politicians
put together.



Jonathan Swift
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Trivia

• 1. How many calories in a teaspoon of sugar?
• 2. How many calories from sugar in a can of
  soda?
• 3. What is the sugar consumption in the U.S.
  (in tons)?
• 4. What is Amalgamateds share of the U.S.
  sugar market?
• 5. What percent of sugar sold is purchased as
  retail?
• 6. What is the dollar value of sugars
  contribution to the
  
• Idaho economy?

15 Calories
0 Calories
10 Million
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About 1.6 billion
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Amalgamated Freight Summary 2004
BEET FREIGHT SUGAR FREIGHT Rail 13,083,098 Ra
il 32,145,328 Truck 15,990,453 Truck 18,161
,432 TOTAL 29,073,552 TOTAL 50,306,761 PULP
1,596,264 MMS FREIGHT MOLASSES
39,667 Coal 6,700,000 CSB
120,729 Coke 1,000,000 BETAINE
757,077 Limerock 3,100,000 TOTAL 10,8
00,000 GRAND TOTAL 92,694,049 Rail 52,928,42
6 57.1 Truck 39,765,623 42.9
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Longer Combination Vehicles (LCVs)

• LCVs HAVE THE LOWEST COLLISION
• RATE OF ALL VEHICLE CLASSES
• Key Operating Statistics for the Idaho Pilot
  Project
• These statistics are from the inception of the
  project
• through January, 2005. The 7-axle figures are a
• conversion of the 10-axle numbers to show what
  would
• have occurred had this tonnage been hauled on the
• traditional trucks. . . . . .

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10-Axle If Hauled
Actual Traditionally Benefits
Tons 1,251,380 1,251,380
0 Loads 29,171 37,921 (
8,750) Congestion Traffic Count 58,342
75,841 ( 17,499) Miles Traveled 1,238,525
1,610,009 (371,485) Pavement
Wear ESALs 63,570 117,129 (
53,559) Pollution Gallons of Fuel 302,079
350,002 ( 47,923) PM-10 PM-25 both are
function of trips and are reduced by the same
fraction
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? The same tonnage required 8,750 fewer loads
when hauled in the 10-axles equipment. ? Congesti
on both in terms of traffic count and miles
traveled is reduced by 23. ? Pavement wear is
reduced by the larger trucks by spreading 22
more gross weight over a 42 increase in the
number of axles. The result is a 45 reduction
in equivalent single-axle loads. ESAL is the
accepted method of predicting pavement wear by
different truck configuration. ? Pollution is in
part a function of fuel burned. The traditional
trucks would have burned 47,923 gallons more than
the 10-axle units when hauling the same total
tonnage. Particulate emissions (PM-10 PM-25)
are a function of trips. Since the 10-axle
trucks reduced the total trips by 23 the
particulate emissions fell by the same
percentage.
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FREIGHT SAVINGS Freight savings are
currently estimated at approximately
100,000/year
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Thank You. . . .
The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC Grower Owned
by Snake River Sugar Co.