With an eye toward the impact of current U.S. sugar policy on Florida, Sun Sentinel Senior Editor Blair Wickstrom argues that rather than a “complicated system of import restrictions, price guarantees and marketing rules administered by the federal government,” sugar should be treated like the rest of the agriculture industry. Wickstrom calls on Florida’s federal elected officials to use the farm bill debate to “push for sensible reforms that encourage sugar growers to modernize.”

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