date:Jun 16, 2012
helps to safeguard domestic supply. They do not receive direct payments as a result of current sugar policy, but the government can restrict the amount of sugar that US sugar farmers can sell, restrict the amount that the US will buy to the level required by trade obligations, and divert excess sugar to ethanol production, in an effort to keep prices stable for US producers. The policy was set with the 1981 Farm Bill.
The Coalition for Sugar Reform said that it would continue to support an ame