From Our Families to YOUR Family: Sweetest Holidays

Sugar is an essential part of our holiday traditions. Family recipes passed down from generation to generation bring warmth and joy to the holiday season.

These sweet moments wouldn’t be possible without the sugarbeet and sugarcane farmers and workers who provide us with a made-in-America supply of real sugar. In fact, our farmers and workers meet approximately three-fourths of our domestic needs, thanks to U.S. sugar policy.

Every day, we thank America’s farmers for their hard work and dedication in putting meals on our tables.  

The holiday season comes at a unique time for America’s sugar industry. Sugarcane farmers in Louisiana and Florida are still hard at work in the fields harvesting this year’s crop while sugar workers across the industry clock-in for factory shifts to turn both sugarbeets and sugarcane into the sugar in your favorite holiday treat. We continue to face new challenges, threatening our family farms and farmer-, worker-, and family-owned factories. We need a five-year Farm Bill to help us keep it sweet in America.  

Congress must make passing a five-year Farm Bill that strengthens the safety net for sugar producers and provides long-term certainty for rural America a priority in the new year. It’s time we put America’s farmers first.

So, as you place sweet treats into stockings hung by the chimney with care, please remember the family farmers and workers who keep you supplied with sugar.

From our farmer and worker families to your family: we wish you the sweetest of holidays and a happy new year.  

To our farmers, workers, and everyone who makes our industry sweet, thank you.