Farm Bill Conferees Fail U.S. Consumers and Manufacturers with Subsidy Increases to Big Sugar

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‘Increase in Sugar Lobby’s Already-generous Subsidies Has Been Air-dropped into Conference Report’ Washington, D.C. (December 11, 2018) – The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) today issued the following statement in response to the news that lawmakers have raised the loan rates for cane sugar and beet sugar in the 2018 farm bill conference. First, lawmakers miss…