2011 Highlights | Symposium| American Sugar Alliance

2011 Highlights

Final Program

Politics and Policy
by: Jim Wiesemeyer / Informa Economics
NAFTA Sugar Complex
by: Frank Jenkins / Jenkins Sugar Group
U.S. Sugar Policy: Managing the Present, Preparing for the Future
by: Barb Fecso / Farm Service Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Sugarnomics Revisited
by: Randy Green / Sweetener Users Association

U.S -Mexico Sweetener Trade: Does Integration Spell Stability or Uncertainty
by: Francois-David Nehama / Sucden Americas Corporation
Following the Trade Agenda
by. Chris Garza / American Farm Bureau Federation
U.S. Mexico Sweetener Trade
by: Dr. Jose Pinto / Beta San Miguel, S.A. De C.V.

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.