Could Higher Crop Prices Actually Help the Economy?

The Sugar Beat

Agricultural commodity prices are up across the board, and it could be helping America’s stalled the_hand_feeds_us_logo_150x127 economy. As chronicled in a front-page Wall Street Journal article, farmers’ fortune is rippling out to rural and urban communities alike.

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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...