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United States Sugar Corporation is one of the nation`s largest fully integrated producer of sugar cane, one of Florida`s major producers of orange juice products and a regional short line railroad operator. Headquartered in Clewiston, Florida the company farms more than 180,000 acres in Hendry, Glades, and Palm Beach counties and employs approximately 1,700 people including many high skilled/wage jobs in automated environments.Produces 650,000 - 700,000 tons of cane sugar a year, providing nearly 8% of the nation`s sugar production.United States Sugar Corporation employs approximately 300 people including high skilled / high wage jobs in variety of automated environments. Largest bulk supplier of premium, not-from-concentrate (NFC) orange juice in the country and one of the largest independent suppliers of NFC juice to major brands. It has the capacity to process up to 20 million boxes of oranges per season, producing more than 100 million gallons of orange juice.

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