U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins recently announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing $150 ...

Some relief is on the way for sugar producers. USDA has announced the availability of $150 million of assistance. Sugar beet and sugar cane farmers across the country are facing market disruptions, ...

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 ...

The USDA says it will work with sugar processors in the coming months to finalize agreements.

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 ...

In America’s panoply of pork, corporate welfare and special-interest boondoggles, perhaps few programs are less defensible than the federal sugar program. So it was dispiriting, but no surprise, that ...

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 ...

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 ...