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Historians believe that Spanish missionaries built the first sugar mill in Texas in the 1780s at Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, in present-day San Antonio. Four decades later, Stephen F.
Grinding season began this week for Lafourche Sugars, and it’s a race to turn 1 million tons of cane into sweet crystals. The mill started up Monday Oct. 7, and for the next 100 days, Lafourche Sugars ...
CANBERRA, June 7 (Reuters) - Industrial disputes at factories that produce more than half of Australia's sugar could cause cane to be left unharvested if they are not resolved soon, threatening ...
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Plunging sugar prices have forced at least one sugar mill to default on bank loans and could drive others to do the same, the latest sign of the heavy toll a four-year-old supply ...
The Cora Texas sugar cane mill in Iberville Parish had a pipeline leak and emergency releases of potent black wastewater in December and January that significantly exceeded permit limits, breaking ...
HEADLAND – There’s a lot of history at Todd Syrup Farm. Old plows, original peanut shelling devices, and more than 50 cane mills are on display in the farm’s living museum – located next door to a ...
It's sugar cane harvest season in Louisiana. To get the cane from stalk to crystals takes a whole lot of machinery and — produces mind-blowing amounts of sugar. Louisiana is the largest sugar cane ...
Nov. 11—TIFTON, Ga. — From the mule-powered sugar cane mill to the smell of syrup cooking, visitors will become immersed in the days of old in South Georgia on Nov. 20 at the annual cane grinding and ...
For a century, sugarcane was the biggest industry in Hawai‘i. But as sugar began to decline in the mid-20th century, tourism became the central pillar of the local economy. Plantations and mills ...