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 ...

WASHINGTON (Valley News Live) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making $150 million available to American sugar beet and sugar cane farmers to help offset rising production costs and temporary ...

The cost of sugar is something Phoenix chocolatier Jay Levine has definitely noticed. “Originally, I'm from Canada, and going back to Canada and looking at the price of sugar there, it's a lot less,” ...

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 ...