With a strong five-year sugar policy at their side, U.S. sugar producers are now setting their sights on addressing the foreign sugar subsidies that make U.S. sugar policy necessary. That's according to Jack Roney, director of economics and policy analysis for the American Sugar Alliance (ASA), who spoke in late February at the USD A Agricultural Outlook Forum."U.S. sugar producers are among the most efficient in the world, and we would thrive in a global free market, if one existed," he explained. "But historically, sugar has been and continues to be the world's most distorted commodity market because of foreign subsidization. Something must be done about it."
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