Executive Vice President of the Florida, Texas and Hawaii Sugarcane Growers Ryan Weston sat down with The Washington Examiner to discuss the upcoming Farm Bill: “Farmers are facing a 50% decline in income over the past 4 years with farm income at a 12-year low. When you are trying to do long-term business planning, you need that continuity.”
ASA’s Phillip Hayes shares what U.S. sugar farmers are looking for in the upcoming Farm Bill, from fair and open trade to mitigating risk and fighting foreign subsidies.
Opponents of American agriculture are making misleading attacks on the no-cost program in their quest to outsource U.S. sugar production to subsidized foreign industries. The final installment of ASA’s “Sugar Shorts” video series explains how sugar policy works.
The third installment of ASA’s “Sugar Shorts” video series explains the difference between subsidies in foreign nations and no-cost U.S. sugar policy.
How has the price of sugar remained so low for so long? The second video in the “Sugar Shorts” series explores the answer.
The first video in ASA’s “Sugar Shorts” series examines how sugar is made.
Montana sugar farmer Ervin Schlemmer testified before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee to discuss the importance of maintaining current sugar policy in the 2018 Farm Bill.
Last year ended on a sour note for a sweet domestic industry.
Do American consumers pay triple the world price for sugar? No.
A U.S. sugar policy that costs taxpayers $0, protects American producers against foreign sugar subsidies, and keeps consumer prices among the lowest in the world should remain in effect in the next Farm Bill, according to a top industry economist.
Compiled by ASA staff using USDA’s Global Agricultural Information Network reports.
American sugar policy is a great deal for taxpayers.
Submission from the American Sugar Alliance to the United States International Trade Commission Investigation No. 332-325 “The Economic Effects of Significant U.S. Import Restraints: Ninth Update” Washington, D.C. January 30, 2017 Click here to read the report
We are bound and determined to do our part to hold fast to what remains and fight for the strong farm policies that make homegrown food possible.
It’s spooky to think how much the farmers’ share of Halloween has fallen in 20 years…
The real “sweetest day” produces record profits for the Candy industry.
In an abrupt about-face, Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture Blairo Maggi recently condemned the kind of Brazilian subsidization that has, for decades, wrecked the world’s sugar market.
“Subsidy attracts incompetence in some areas, and doesn’t allow the sectors to succeed through competitiveness,” he was recently quoted as saying in an Aug. 25 article that appeared in SugarOnline.com.
Two studies touting the importance of U.S. sugar policy took center stage when the American Sugar Alliance released a new video about studies by professors at Texas A&M University and the University of Maryland.
Dr. Joe Outlaw and Dr. James Richardson, co-directors of Texas A&M’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center.
Professor Alexander J. Triantis Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
During a recent hearing to examine the health of the rural economy, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX) noted that farm income has plummeted 56 percent since 2013. That, he said, represented the worst stretch since the depression of the ’30s. “In short, we have a very serious problem unfolding right now in rural…
Testimony by Jack Roney, Director of Economics and Policy Analysis, and Don Phillips, Trade Advisor, ASA
Critics within the food manufacturing industry say sugar policy is causing it financial pain, and the only way to rectify the situation is to outsource U.S. sugar production and let heavily-subsidized foreign producers flood the market with cheap sugar. But do the numbers back up the food conglomerates’ poor mouthing?
Sugar is not grown in New Mexico, but a key member of the state’s congressional delegation reiterated his support of no-cost U.S. sugar policy yesterday at the 32nd International Sugar Symposium.
Sugar costs about the same today as it did three decades ago. It’s easy to see who is making all of the money here.
A report for the American Sugar Alliance by Patrick H. Chatenay, President, ProSunergy (UK) Ltd
By simultaneously rolling back sugar subsidies and trade-distorting policies in all countries – including America’s no-cost policy – the global price of sugar will naturally rise to reflect the cost of producing the crop.
by SIS Research International This report examined 2014 retail sugar prices in 23 countries, plus Hong Kong.
Testimony by ASA’s Jack Roney House Committee on Agriculture Full Committee Hearing: Review of Agricultural Subsidies in Foreign Countries
by Antoine Meriot, Sugar Expertise LLC The Thai government has been closely involved with the Thai sugar industry for decades…
Luther Markwart, Executive Vice President of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association, counters some common misperceptions about US sugar policy.
Earlier this month, a national farming television program called the U.S. Farm Report ran a segment that used decades-old talking points about U.S. sugar policy to completely mischaracterize U.S. producers’ stance on trade.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 19, 2015
CONTACT: Phillip Hayes, 202-507-8303
WASHINGTON — U.S. sugar producers today unveiled a new resource on the American Sugar Alliance (ASA) website that catalogues increases to foreign sugar subsidies made over the past two years. The site, which provides links to news reports about international subsidy changes, already includes nearly 30 entries.
Earlier this week, a longtime anti-sugar critic penned an article in the Wall Street Journal attacking U.S. sugar farmers and the policy on which they depend.
Fortunately, the newspaper brought some balance to the debate by publishing the American Sugar Alliance’s response to the article today.
Returns have been low for the better part of three decades for sugar industries on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, but the two countries have dealt with the challenge far differently.
Why have large candy companies engaged in a multi-million-dollar lobbying effort…
by Patrick H. Chatenay of ProSunergy (UK) Ltd
“The Economic Effects of Significant U.S. Import Restraints: Eighth Update”
“The Economic Effects of Significant U.S. Import Restraints: Eighth Update”
by Professor Alexander J. Triantis
by Professor Alexander J. Triantis
By Patrick H. Chatenay, ProSunergy (UK) Ltd
