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US corn farmers lobby to overturn sugar programme
Published Sun, Jun 28, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Chicago
THE powerful US corn lobby is launching an unusual offensive against the country's sugar sector, an old foe in the lucrative sweetener market: seeking to overturn the controversial, near-century old US sugar programme.
The Corn Refiners Association, which represents high-fructose corn syrup producers, has hired Washington lobbyist firm, the Alpine Group, to challenge sugar's …
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