A new, consensus approach to sugar subsidy reform

Published September 29, 2013 12:00am ET



Republicans in the House of Representatives and Democrats in the Senate didn’t agree on much during the farm bill debate, but both bodies clearly sided with the powerful U.S. sugar lobby when it came to the continuation of U.S. sugar tariffs and quotas.

That means sugar probably won’t be coming up in the joint House-Senate conference committee, and sugar policy will continue unchanged.

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