"This labor dispute is a problem, this really creates headaches," said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., when asked about the impact of the American Crystal Sugar Co. labor dispute on the sugar program.

FRESNO, Calif. -- The U.S. sugar program will not need changes in the 2012 farm bill except to help the growers enter the renewable fuels market, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, ...

SAN DIEGO -- World sugar prices are well above the U.S. support price, but that doesn't mean there won't be a battle over the sugar program during the 2012 farm bill debate. Sweetener Users ...

Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., at the International Sweetener Symposium in Traverse City, Michigan, on Aug. 5, 2025. At left is American Sugarbeet Growers Association Executive Vice President and CEO ...

American Crystal Sugar executives must be figuring that the U.S. sugar program is going to end. That's the only way to explain their current labor strategy. The strategy is to reduce costs by cutting ...

WASHINGTON - Makers of sodas, candy bars and other sweetened snacks are taking aim at a long-standing federal program that keeps sugar prices high by restricting imports. Doing away with the sugar ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has introduced the Sugar Reform Act of 2013 (Senate Bill 345) to lower sugar prices to consumers and confectionery companies without using federal supply ...

The one thing that I know about Americans is that we love our sugar. We consume more sugar than any other country. Thanks to the tariff-rate quota, or TRQ, levied by the U.S. sugar program, American ...

It’s Valentine’s Day, and, yet again, lovers and friends face higher costs for sharing their affections—courtesy of a Stalinist-style supply control policy, aka the US federal sugar program. Over the ...