date:Feb 16, 2013
prices and production while providing a floor under prices to protect growers. They also maintain that U.S. sugar prices paid by consumers are below sugar prices in many other developed and developing countries, many of which have subsidies that allow them to sell sugar at lower prices on the world market than domestically. Producers also note that U.S. sugar prices have declined more than 50% from late 2011 highs and the market currently faces an oversupply due to large crops in the United Sta