USDA Announces Fiscal Year 2018 Sugar Loan Rates, Allotment and Marketing Allocations

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced the marketing assistance loan rates for sugar for crop year 2017 (fiscal year 2018). CCC also announced provisions of the fiscal year 2018 domestic sugar program. USDA offers marketing assistance loans to processors of sugar beets and domestically grown sugarcane to provide interim…