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 ...

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 ...

Low prices and excess sugar volume on the U.S. market could have caused sugar for the crop year that ended this past September to be forfeited. Thankfully, at the end of September, USDA showed that no ...

USDA-ARS Sugarcane Research Unit research geneticists, scientists, and technicians harvest, tag, and bundle samples from test crops in rows of sugarcane in Houma, La. (USDA photo). USDA is struggling ...

Leaders of the Red River Valley's two sugar beet cooperatives say the U.S. sugar program is fine the way it is. But they worry the program could be affected by a provision of the North American Free ...

CONGRESS has voted once again to make the holiday season and the new year in America less sweet and more expensive. By wide majorities in both chambers, Congress recently reaffirmed its support for a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Wednesday not to tamper with the Depression-era program that protects U.S. sugar growers as it sped toward completion of a $500 billion bill to operate farm and food ...

Congress is hoping that an ethanol industry with an endless appetite for corn will have a sweet tooth, too. Under the farm bill the House passed last month, the federal government would buy surplus ...