Developed Countries' Retail Sugar Prices: USA 11% Below Average

American consumers get a great deal on sugar prices that are stable and low, well below the average price paid in other developed countries.

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Audio & Video

Jack Roney on Fox Business

Factors Driving the Sugar Market: Jack Roney of the American Sugar Alliance on the commodity's banner year last year and where prices are headed.
Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
Learn how sugar is grown, harvested, milled and refined.

Sugarbeet Grower Alan Welp Tells the Tale of Two Intertwined Industries
Western Sugar, a company now owned by farmers, closed its Goodland, Kansas 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. Today, thanks to no-cost sugar policy, things have turned around, and business is now booming for confectionery manufacturers. Sugarbeet grower and Western Sugar Cooperative member Alan Welp discusses.