Keeping It Sweet During National Candy Month
June 9, 2025
June is National Candy Month, a celebration of all things sweet. This month—and every month—we take great pride in the hard work and dedication of America’s sugarbeet and sugarcane farmers and workers. Thanks to them, both candy manufacturers and consumers benefit from high-quality, made-in-America sugar. Sugar is an essential ingredient in not only your favorite treats, but also countless everyday foods vital to a balanced and healthy diet.
When we celebrate sweets, we’re also celebrating American family farmers and the policies that support their farms. While other confectionery inputs like cocoa remain difficult to procure, U.S. sugar policy helps ensure a reliable, affordable supply of sugar—keeping food manufacturing lines running, supporting American manufacturing jobs, benefiting local economies, and bolstering supply chains.
Due in part to the reliability of America’s sugarbeet and sugarcane growers and the stability provided by U.S. sugar policy, business is booming for American confectioners. The National Confectioner’s Association announced a new U.S. sales record of $54 billion in 2024.
Congratulations to America’s candy makers and a big thank you to our farmers and workers who provide just-in-time delivery of sugar throughout the year while meeting some of the highest labor, environmental, and food quality standards in the world.
Here are some more sweet facts to snack on this National Candy Month:
🍬 American farmers and workers supply 70-75% of the nation’s sugar needs. We expect a record year of American sugar production this year!
🍬 U.S. sugar policy ensures that we always have sugar available—current projections estimate that the U.S. could carry over as much as 4 billion pounds of sugar into the next marketing year.
🍬 Domestic producers provide sugar at reasonable prices despite supply uncertainties in the world market.
🍬 U.S. sugar policy puts our farmers and food manufacturers first. The high profitability and low volatility of the American candy industry can be attributed, in part, to U.S. sugar policy.
🍬 Data from the past dozen years shows a large amount in spending by food manufacturing companies in the U.S. to expand production—at least $1 billion per year for the past 12 years. There have been recent announcements of investments and expansions in candy manufacturing in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
🍬 All of this comes at zero cost to taxpayers and an affordable cost to consumers.
Behind every sugar-sweetened treat are farm families and workers who are dedicated to producing American-made sugar. So, if you dig into something sweet to celebrate National Candy Month, don’t forget to thank a farmer.
Source: American Sugar Alliance
