Robusta coffee comes off record high, arabica slips from 2-1/2 year peak
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NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - Robusta coffee futures on ICE fell on Wednesday, a day after setting a record high on supply woes in Vietnam, while arabica came off a two-and-a-half-year peak.
COFFEE
* September robusta coffee LRCc2 settled down $157, or 3.4%, at $4,477 a metric ton after hitting an all-time high of $4,667 on Tuesday.
* Dealers remained concerned about dry conditions overall this year in top producer Vietnam, despite the return of rains in the first 10 days of July.
* They also said very little coffee inventory remainedin Vietnam's domestic market.
* September arabica coffee KCc2 fell 2.6% to $2.4355 per lb, after hitting a near two-and-a-half-year high on Tuesday of $2.5235.
* Dealers citedongoing concerns about dry weather in top arabica producer Brazil, smaller bean sizes and the low volume of new crops available in the Brazilian spot market.
* They noted ICE'sincrease inmargin requirements for some arabica coffee futures as a move to potentially cool off the market.
COCOA
* September London cocoa LCCc2 settled down 25 pounds, or 0.4%, at 6,685 pounds per ton.
* Low prices and payment delays are pushing farmers in No. 2 cocoa producer Ghana to sell to increasingly sophisticated smuggling rings, siphoning off production from border areas and raising doubt over the next season's output.
* As Ghana's cocoa sector decline accelerates,Indonesia plans to use funds from its palm oil export levy to finance development of the country's cocoa and coconut sectors.
* The market is awaiting second-quarter grind data due this Thursday and next for indications on whether this year's stellar price rises are curtailing demand.
* September New York cocoa CCc2 fell 1% to $8,071.
SUGAR
* October raw sugar SBc1 settled up 0.19 cent, or 1%, at 19.81 cents per lb, having settled down 2.5% on Tuesday.
* August white sugar LSUc1, which expires next week, rose 0.7% to $557.80 a ton.
* Europe's largest sugar producer, Suedzucker SZUG.DE, said on Wednesday it expects a "significant decline" during its June-to-August quarter earnings, hurt by prolonged duty-free agricultural imports from Ukraine into the EU.
Reporting by Maytaal Angel and Marcelo Teixeira; Editing by Sohini Goswami, Richard Chang and Maju Samuel
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