Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Sugar Program Proposals for the Next Farm Bill [electronic resource].

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 (15 pages), digital, PDF file
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Summary
Provides background on USDA sugar program, which provides a price guarantee to processors and producers of sugarcane and sugar beets; and summarizes pro/con arguments for renewal of the sugar program in context of the omnibus 2012 farm bill. Covers legislative activity in the 112th and 113th Congresses to reauthorize and amend the program. Outlines CBO cost estimates and FY2013 program costs, considers implications for sugar program authority expiration, and reviews sugar market price issues.
Subject(s)
Related Titles
ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection
Note
CRS Report.
Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed May 2014). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
Technical Details
System requirements: PDF reader software.
View MARC record | catkey: 18411869