Business / Agriculture / Forfeiture Penalty (Sugar): A penalty paid to the Commodity Credit Corporation by a processor of sugar beets or sugarcane who, having taken out a nonrecourse loan, decides to hand over sugar pledged as collateral to the CCC rath MORE
Business / Agriculture / Sugar Price Support Program: The federal program that maintains a minimum price for sugar. The new program covers the 1996-2002 crops of sugar beets and sugarcane. Under the FAIR Act of 1996, sugar processors benefit from a price MORE
Business / Agriculture / Sugar Re-Export Programs: Administered by USDA, program regulations allow cane refiners and food manufacturers, subject to certain conditions, to import sugar exempt from tariff-rate quota provisions that apply to sugar import MORE
Life Style / Wine / Sugar Ripeness: When the grapes reach a certain sugar concentration, sufficient for alcoholic fermentation and meeting the demands of the winemaker, this is sugar ripeness. It is distinct from physiological ripeness MORE
Entertainment / Photography / Gelatin Sugar Process: Daylight printing process using paper with a sugar and dichromate coating, which hardens on exposure to light. MORE
Life Style / Wine / Residual Sugar: The amount of sugar left in the wine after alcoholic fermentation. Residual sugar may be the result of high must weight, or the termination of fermentation before all the sugar has been converted into MORE