Sugar Cane A Destiny Manifest in South Carolina Family.(Knight...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  November 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......sable hands was tall, purple stalks of sugar cane. Mounds of it were piled at his feet...powered by a horse named Rooster. As the sugar cane was crushed between thick metal cylinders...finally fell into a tin washtub. This sugar cane juice would become sugar cane syrup ...

Sugar Cane

The Washington Post;  August 11, 2004 ;     577 words ......Rangoon -- love to chew on fibrous sugar cane for a taste of the flavorful syrup. A principal source of sucrose, sugar cane is a perennial grass that is believed...around Washington are not stocking sugar cane for people who make their own sugar...

Sweet 'n' slow Sugar cane trucks still clog roads in Cajun country

The Boston Globe;  November 21, 1997 ;     679 words ......of the year because of "trucks hauling sugar cane." It is peak season for the biggest crop...under loads of thousands of stalks of sugar cane crawl across the landscape like prehistoric...duress, but the mills do a good job. Sugar cane may be a small industry compared to cotton...

Sugar Cane Alley: Re-reading race, class and identity in Zobel's La rue...

Literature/Film Quarterly;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......issues of identity in the film, Sugar Cane Alley, and the novel on which it is...Palcy's first feature film, Sugar Cane Alley, is a story of colonial oppression...States under the catchier title, Sugar Cane Alley (1984), a title which, it may...

Sugar cane harvest under way in Santa Rosa, Texas, region.

Monitor (McAllen, TX);  November 15, 2004 ;     669 words ......squeezing out sweetness for the 32nd sugar cane season in the Rio Grande Valley. More than 270,000 tons of sugar cane has been produced so far at the W...mill. Santa Rosa is home to the only sugar cane mill in Texas. There were once five...

Bumper sugar cane crop in Louisiana to fetch low price

New Orleans CityBusiness;  December 20, 2007 ;     471 words ......farmers are approaching the end of a good sugar cane harvest. "It's been one of the better...quite some time," said Dr. Ben Legendre, sugar cane specialist with the LSU AgCenter. Legendre...first week of the new year. "The 2007 sugar cane crop in Louisiana turned out to be a...

Sweetest fuel in Texas: Turning sugar cane into ethanol could benefit...

Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX);  February 15, 2006 ;     525 words ......stations was made using, not corn, but sugar cane, one of that South American country's chief crops. Da Silva, a sugar cane researcher at the Texas Agricultural...world that it can produce fuel from sugar cane, he said. I saw numerous filling...

Stirring in sugar cane's sweetness

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  August 2, 2006 ;     310 words ......Bergen County, NJ) 08-02-2006 Stirring in sugar cane's sweetness By DONNA PIERCE, CHICAGO...delicious juice from peeled stalks of sugar cane. But unless you frequent Hispanic and...American markets, you may be unfamiliar with sugar cane. Recently, while shopping for produce...

Farmers Eye Sugar Cane for Ethanol

AP Online;  February 20, 2002 ;     682 words ...00-00-0000 Title: Farmers Eye Sugar Cane for Ethanol [image omitted] LOS ANGELES...farmers are envisioning endless acres of sugar cane rising amid the alfalfa, lettuce and...prices have been working to introduce sugar cane on farmland about 200 miles southeast...

Valley sugar cane could set new record.

Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX);  February 14, 2007 ;     320 words ......indications compiled by the Rio Grande Sugar Cane Growers Inc., the amount of cane...the record 1.7 million tons of sugar cane harvested during the 2005-06 season...industry officials said. The Valley sugar cane industry averages some 1.6 million...

Cabinet orders review sugar cane price, NATION

The Nation (Thailand);  December 9, 1998 ;     425 words ......Nation (Thailand) 12-09-1998 LOBBYING sugar cane planters scored a victory Tuesday as...revise an earlier decision on the new sugar cane price for the current season. The Cabinet...planters if the preliminary price of sugar cane is lower than the cost of planting. Industry...

CUBA: EXPANDING SUGAR CANE BY-PRODUCTS WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ......IPS/GIN) -- Cuba hopes to expand its sugar cane derivatives industry by opening it up...demand. Local authorities say Cuba's sugar cane industry must be transformed into a modern...electricity generation, as one ton of sugar cane biomass -- consisting of bagasse and...

Sugar cane strains could keep out pests

AP Online;  October 8, 1998 ;     376 words ...AP Online 10-08-1998 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Sugar cane growers, who race against the clock to protect...Agricultural Research Service have developed 12 new sugar cane germ plasm strains that withstand the sugar cane borer, Diatrae saccharalis. The borer is...

FARM SCENE: Sugar cane strains could keep out pests

AP Online;  October 8, 1998 ;     376 words ...AP Online 10-08-1998 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Sugar cane growers, who race against the clock to protect...Agricultural Research Service have developed 12 new sugar cane germ plasm strains that withstand the sugar cane borer, Diatrae saccharalis. The borer is...

TAUZIN SECURES $60 MILLION FOR SUGAR CANE FARMERS.

States News Service;  February 14, 2003 ;     352 words ......has tucked about $60 million for sugar cane farmers in Louisiana into a House...and general manager of the American Sugar Cane League in Thibodaux, said the bill would hopefully prevent sugar cane growers from going into bankruptcy...