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Study: Sugar reform would save consumers

The Coalition for Sugar Reform, a group funded by industrial sweetener users, released a study today that claims that the complete elimination of the U.S. sugar program and the elimination of all tariffs and restrictions on sugar imports would save American consumers up to $3.5 billion per year. Read More...

Sweetener Users study criticizes sugar program

Reps. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., and Danny Davis, D-Ill., have released a study critical of the U.S. sugar program. Read More...

Sweetener users battle sugar growers over reform

Candy makers and other confectioners fanned out across Capitol Hill on Thursday, telling members of Congress that changing the U.S. sugar program is now their highest legislative priority. Read More...

Sugar reform group debuts its website

The Coalition for Sugar Reform has launched a new website. Read More...

U.S. sugar industry warned to avoid EU-style reform

STOWE, Vt. — The European Union’s sugar reform has caused such supply shortages and price volatility that the United States should be leery of any proposal that would reduce domestic production and make the country dependent on sugar from developing countries that may not be reliable suppliers, European sugar analysts and executives say. Read More...

Analysts: Demand will keep sugar prices high

STOWE, Vt. — World sugar prices are likely to remain high due to world demand and the difficulty of increasing supply, analysts said at the American Sugar Alliance International Sweetener Symposium here last week. Read More...

Lugar sweetens sugar program repeal plan with cartoon

In an odd political twist, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., under pressure from the tea party in his 2012 re-election campaign, has released a cartoon titled “Lugar’s Sweet Tea Party.” Read More...

SPECIAL REPORT | Stabenow: Senate will proceed on its own schedule to write, finish farm bill

Senate Agriculture Commitee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., says the Senate will proceed on its own schedule on the farm bill and should finish the bill as quickly as possible, but she will not promise to finish the bill in 2012. Read More...

Brazilian sugarcane group likes U.S. renewable energy pacts

Agreements between the United States and Brazil involving renewable energy that were announced during President Obama’s visit to South America have won praise from the Brazilian sugarcane industry association UNICA, and a more measured comment from the Renewable Fuels Association. Read More...

Sugar users, growers prepare for farm bill battle

SAN DIEGO — World sugar prices are way 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. Read More...