51.   Halfmann, who farms near Stephen, Minn., said sugar growers have asked Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to consider using surplus sugar in ethanol production.

52.   He said he did not believe sugar growers would stop cutting cane as they earlier threatened, since cane was the sweetest during the current period.

53.   Sugar growers will benefit from a provision that guarantees that they can continue to forfeit sugar to the government in repayment of federal price-support loans.

54.   While sugar growers dispute the reasons, the mayor largely blames a price-support program that has made American sugar twice as expensive as world prices.