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Sugar Backgrounder

by Stephen Haley and Mir Ali

Outlook No. (SSS-249-01) 59 pp, July 2007

This report on the U.S. sugar sector places into context the challenges facing sugar producers, users, and policymakers in the United States, including description and analysis of farm-level production of U.S. sugar crops, cane and beet sugar processing and refining industries, imports and exports of sugar, sugar consumption, and U.S. sugar policy issues likely to be important in the 2007 Farm Bill.

Keywords: Sugar, sugarcane, sugarbeets, U.S. sugar program

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Last updated: Thursday, July 05, 2012

For more information contact: Stephen Haley and Mir Ali