Sugar Program [electronic resource] : The Basics

Corporate Author: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (11 pages), digital, PDF file

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Provides information on USDA sugar program, which provides a price guarantee to processors and producers of sugarcane and sugar beets. Examines tools used by USDA, as authorized by the 2008 farm bill and longstanding trade law, to keep domestic market prices above guaranteed levels, including price support loans, marketing allotments, import quotas, and feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers.
This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 13-R4-2535 in the 2013 issue.

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