While Americans enjoy their candy hearts and chocolate roses, multinational candy companies are spinning wild tales of a ‘sugar shortage’ to undermine farmers like us. Consumers hearing this tale are likely to be confused to instead discover shelves well-stocked with affordable American-made sugar, as always.
As two of the more than 11,000 American sugarbeet and sugarcane farmers, we want to set the record straight: There is no sugar shortage. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), American sugar producers are setting the stage for a record-breaking 2023-2024 crop at almost 9.4 million tons of sugar.
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