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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...