Congress is hoping that an ethanol industry with an endless appetite for corn will have a sweet tooth, too. Under the farm bill the House passed last month, the federal government would buy surplus ...

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WASHINGTON - Making ethanol from sugar could be profitable with the current high demand for the gasoline substitute, but it probably won't be for long, the Agriculture Department said Monday. At ...

As the Senate prepared to vote on the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the sugar lobby proposed a sweet deal for itself. To compensate for more sugar imports, both from CAFTA and the ...

NEW YORK, March 7 (Reuters) - Brazil cane mills will boost their sugar production capacity as much as 10% in the new season from April to take advantage of relatively high sugar prices and as ...

Brazilian ethanol prices have been falling on sluggish demand and government efforts to bring inflation to heel, undermining margins for producers like Adecoagro. Current prices favor shifting ...

FARGO, N.D -- With planting less than a month away, a company hoping to contract with farmers in 2012 to convert sugar beets into ethanol at a defunct corn-based ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has ...