Items Tagged with 'sugar'

House Agriculture Committee Democrats are setting up an election-year battle over farm and nutrition programs.

The U.S. International Trade Commission is maintaining the suspension agreements on Mexican sugar that protect U.S. producers. The suspension agreements ensure higher floor prices for Mexican sugar.

As weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy become more accessible, U.S. food industries are scrambling to understand how the drugs could reshape consumer demand.

MAHA recommendations were last week but their release has been delayed amid concerns about how they will address food and agriculture.

No exemptions for coffee as tariffs on Brazil go into effect.

Top soda makers are expanding or contemplating use of cane sugar as a sweetener. But this move is likely to cause disturbances in the trade arena without clear nutritional benefits. 

President Donald Trump said Coca-Cola will begin using cane sugar in U.S. coke, which has been made using corn syrup. The company, however, did not commit to the move.

The Make America Healthy Again movement, heralded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other members of the Trump administration, has long pinned the rise of chronic diseases on food chemicals and dyes. In an announcement last week laying out the federal government’s plan to eliminate synthetic dyes from the food supply, Kennedy set aim on another issue: Sugar. 

The Port of Baltimore, a major national shipping point for farm equipment equipment and commodities including sugar, has fully reopened for commerce following the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.