It’s a cloudy, gray Saturday morning in November and the Schexnayders are gathered in a shed on their farm in White Castle, watching sugar cane juice bubble away in a large, cast iron cauldron. The ...
These photos, taken at the Heritage Festival in Henderson, show the process of deriving syrup from sugar cane stalks using a vintage mill. Cane syrup and sorghum syrup were the most common sweeteners ...
(CNN) -- A former sugar cane farmer in Puerto Rico has been confirmed as the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records, just a few weeks shy of his 113th birthday. Emilio Flores Márquez was born on ...
For over 200 years in the United States, sugar cane field burning has been a tool that farmers use in the pre-harvest season to remove the tops of the sugar cane plant. However, the smoke from that ...