Sugar producers from across the country are meeting this week to discuss everything from the Farm Bill to open trade with Mexico and the struggling WTO negotiations.  But in the convention hallway, one issue has dominated conversation: sugar prices.  While commodity prices soar for corn, wheat, and soybeans, sugar prices have been stuck in idle for the past couple of years...

Nearly every family and small business is feeling the effects of rising gas prices, but few are feeling the pain as much as America’s sugar farmers.  Even with the strong Farm Bill recently passed into law, sugar farmers are being bombarded with soaring input costs.  And unlike other crops, sugar producers haven’t seen sharp commodity price increases to help offset their rising costs....

The agriculture community came together in a big way last week in opposing what was shaping up to be a bad deal in the Doha round of the World Trade Organization.  They applauded U.S. trade negotiators’ decision to reject further concessions in agriculture...