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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana’s $3.5 billion sugarcane and sugar mill industries could breathe a sigh of relief after an effort to effectively end the federal sugar program was defeated on the Senate ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - U.S. sugar growers, who currently enjoy government price supports, could turn to ethanol distillers as a market for their crops if they are blocked from selling sugar ...

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, June 3 (Reuters) - Food manufacturers and big sugar buyers said on Monday they believe a proposed U.S. sugar-to-ethanol program will cost twice as much as a government estimate and urged ...

While government agencies and media outlets scrutinize traditional plant-based supplements like turmeric and leaf kratom with intense focus, a more concerning substance receives active government ...

(Bloomberg) -- The bitter decades-long feud between Big Sugar and Big Candy began to ease in a conference room at Washington’s Four Seasons hotel, where more than 40 lobbyists faced off, divided by a ...