Word: buker
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...than sparing sugar, the 1995 farm bill ended domestic acreage allotments, restricted low-risk loans and created a domestic free market in sugar. The industry has seen radical restructuring since the law passed. Today sugar prices in America are lower than anywhere else in the developed world. ROBERT H. BUKER JR. Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs U.S. Sugar Corp. Clewiston...
...election of Clinton and Gore -- and the elevation of Browner to the EPA -- that changed their mind. Maybe they feared that they were losing the public relations battle and that their federal agricultural subsidies might be at risk. Or maybe they sincerely saw the need for compromise. Says Robert Buker Jr., a senior vice president at U.S. Sugar: "You can't shut down farming, but you can't destroy the environment either. They have to coexist." The growers have offered to put up $120 million toward the cost of pollution control in return for a new arrangement of filtering marshes...