While America’s farm and food economy remains the envy of the world, its sugar policy has not kept pace. Without targeted changes, the sugar program will continue to restrict job growth for bakeries, confectioners and other small and local Main Street businesses and manufacturers. It will also continue to cost American families billions of dollars each year at the grocery store. Now is the time to act on smart bipartisan reforms to the sugar program that will support farmers, businesses and families.

We believe the upcoming farm bill reauthorization process offers several important opportunities to update the sugar program for today’s modern farm and food economy.