Underestimating US sugar

VAIL, Colo. — Management of the U.S. sugar program in the 2008 farm bill is proving difficult because Congress and analysts expected the U.S. sugar market to be flooded with foreign sugar, but the reverse is true, USDA officials said at the American Sugar Alliance International Sweetener Symposium in Vail, Colo.

By: Jerry Hagstrom, Special to Agweek