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Senate Farm Bill sugar reform vote

Confectionery industry heartened by close sugar program vote

By Caroline Scott-Thomas

The candy industry and sugar growers are both claiming at least a partial victory after the US Senate voted 50-46 to shelve an amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill that would have repealed the current sugar program.

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