PEOPLE PLANET PRODUCTS POLICIES

America’s sugar producers Prioritize People by paving the way for young farmers, creating opportunities to cooperatively own companies, investing in local communities, paying workers fair wages and benefits, and providing development opportunities for our diverse workforce.

A Sweet Beet to Beat Cancer

December 11, 2019/in People /by Philippa Levenberg

More than 260 people walked, jogged and ran to the beat during the 2019 race. Top runners in all divisions receive gift bags filled with sweet treats made with Minnesota-grown sugar during the closing ceremony. SMBSC’s 10th anniversary Running to the Sweet Beet 5K raised more than $6,600, bringing the total contributed to cancer initiatives from the race event alone to nearly $44,000 over ten years.   

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U.S. Sugar Provides Backpacks and School Supplies to Thousands of South Florida Schoolchildren

October 22, 2019/in Featured, People /by Philippa Levenberg

Pencils. Glue. Scissors. Notebooks. Each item packed carefully into a backpack by a volunteer. Thanks in part to U.S. Sugar, thousands of students in Florida started school in August 2019 with brand-new backpacks filled with the supplies they would need for a successful year. U.S. Sugar partnered with several community organizations, including the Clewiston Library, […]

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Texas Sugar Producers Tip Their Hat to Sugar Policy

July 22, 2019/in Featured, People /by Philippa Levenberg

Deep in the heart of Texas, approximately 112 farmers grow sugar cane across 41,000 acres along the banks of the Rio Grande river. These farmers and their farmer-owned cooperative, Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, are important members of the Rio Grande Valley community and a critical part of the Texan economy. Unfortunately, they are all […]

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Union Workers to Congress: America’s Sugar Policy Sustains Local Communities

July 22, 2019/in Featured, People /by Scott Graves

Cornelius Fowler’s message was simple when he walked the halls of Congress this summer. “If you kill the root, you kill the tree,” he said, “and the sugar industry is the root of the tree in my community.” Fowler drives a truck hauling farm equipment for the Florida Crystals Okeelanta Sugar Mill in western Palm […]

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