Sugar Issue Brief: 2009 Outlook

The combination of economic pressures and unneeded foreign sugar cascading onto the U.S. market could be enough to sink America’s sugar producers,” the paper concluded. If the Farm Bill remains in tact and is implemented properly—and if America’s trade policy does not undercut its sugar growers—the U.S. producers have the tools to weather the storm of 2009 and enter 2010 in a strong position.

ASA: Government Policy Holds Key to Industry’s Success in ‘09

Symposium

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.