date:Apr 29, 2014
ast for 2014. Costs were forecast at an average of $39.1 million annually in subsequent years.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture paid about $259 million for sugar industry loan forfeitures and other supports in fiscal 2013. It was the first time in nearly a decade that the U.S.D.A. had incurred costs in the sugar program.
Even as the sugar lobby is pressing for new and unfair import limits on Mexican sugar, the industry is poised to receive taxpayer dollars every single year over the next dec