A Fire in the River: Big Sugar and ‘Black Snow' in the Everglades
Burning is an easy way to eliminate the outer leaves of sugar cane and reduce costs. Every year from October until May, ...
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Louisiana sugar cane crops to produce 2 million tons of sugar worth about $1.5B
Damage to crops included crops falling over and some root breakage causing some leaves to die ... in the stalks. “Sugar ...
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Sugar cane grinding season has begun. Here's a glimpse of the process
The mill started up Monday Oct. 7, and for the next 100 days, Lafourche Sugars will operate 24/7 to extract as much raw sugar as it can from 1 million tons of cane. Unlike other sugarcane ...
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South Africa's sugar cane murders: Living in fear of serial killings
A short walk into a forest-like part of the farm leads to the base of a tree where Ms Chiliza's remains were discovered - the large leaves used ... been found on his sugar cane farm Aided by ...