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2012 Farm Bill Hearing: Testimony of Ray VanDreissche |
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On May 31, 2011, Ray VanDreissche, of Michigan Sugar Company, a farmer-owned cooperative, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture at the Field Hearing on the 2012 Farm Bill Hearing in East Lansing, Michigan.
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The Economic Effects of Significant U.S. Import Restraints: Seventh Update |
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The American Sugar Alliance has participated in each of the USITC updates of the Import Restraints series. We have consistently argued that the ITC’s work on the effect of lifting sugar import tariffs is fundamentally flawed. As we have noted before, the ITC underestimates the number of jobs in the U.S. sugar producing industry and the potential harm to this industry and the U.S. economy. Furthermore, ITC has overestimated the job creation and help to the U.S. economy were sugar import restraints to be lifted.
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USDA: Sugar Policy to Save Taxpayers $1.3 Billion |
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WASHINGTON—U.S. sugar policy will operate without cost to taxpayers over the next decade, just as it has since 2002, according to data released last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Earlier this month, the American Farm Bureau Federation held their annual convention in Hawaii—a state that is synonymous with sugar production.
Western Sugar, a company now owned by farmers, closed its Goodland, Kan., sugarbeet factory in 1985. Sugar prices were low, the cost of doing business was climbing, and tough decisions were made that hurt workers and farmers.
Brazil’s agricultural empire has come under some firelately for its rapid run-up in subsidization. 