The two leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, chairman Pat Roberts and top-ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow, said the U.S. sugar program is safe from challenge within the committee. Agri-Pulse says Roberts and Stabenow sent a video message to the International Sugar Symposium, meeting in New Mexico. Roberts said he has no intentions of re-opening the 2014 farm law to debate sugar supports, and Stabenow said supports are “locked in with certainty.” Agri-Pulse noted that attempts to reform the sugar program through the annual USDA appropriations bills “recently sputtered out. That means changes for the sugar program, which limits imports as a means of supporting domestic market prices, will lie in wait at least one more year.”