Sugar Industry

U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., gives a thumbs up to supporters as he leaves a stop on the first day of a three-week campaign, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Cochran, 76 and seeking a seventh term, faces state Sen. Chris McDaniel of Ellisville. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Thad Cochran runs in Mississippi as king of corporate welfare

Timothy P. Carney · June 10, 2014 9:00 pm

Feds fund poetry — to fight diabetes

Paul Bedard · June 4, 2014 6:26 pm

Western Sugar seeks meeting following death, fines

Western Sugar seeks meeting following death, fines

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 10:15 pm

FILE - In this July 10, 2013, file photo, office workers eats tacos at an outdoor food stand during lunch time in Mexico City. Mexico has surpassed the United States in levels of adult obesity. Mexico's new food labeling rules were supposed to help fight an obesity epidemic, but activists and experts said Monday, april 21, 2014, that they may actually encourage the public to consume high levels of sugar. (AP Photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre,File)

Mexico food labeling rules draw fire on sugar

Mark Stevenson · April 24, 2014 8:08 pm

Domino Sugar takes iconic Baltimore sign solar

Domino Sugar takes iconic Baltimore sign solar

Washington Examiner · April 22, 2014 5:39 pm

US looking into Mexican exports, price of sugar

US looking into Mexican exports, price of sugar

Janet McConnaughey · April 22, 2014 3:31 pm

Provisions in the farm bill increase the price of sugar, raising costs to candy producers and the buying public. (AP File)

The farm bill leaves a sour taste for candy producers

Steve Chapman · February 13, 2014 5:00 am

The sugar industry says if we let in more foreign sugar, domestic sugar production might dry up, because prices will drop to points that U.S. growers cannot compete with. (Photo: Thinkstock)

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If we let in too much sugar, we’ll run out of sugar, industry says

Timothy P. Carney · May 23, 2013 4:00 am

Granulated sugar in bowl with cubes on countertop

Tim Carney: Sugar industry would wither without big government

Timothy P. Carney · February 3, 2013 5:00 am