The plaintiffs say Florida Crystals’ failure to adopt green harvesting techniques runs counter to its claims of environmental stewardship.

Eikenberg went on to say, “The greatest threat to Southwest Florida ... WINK News reached out to U.S. Sugar Corp., Okeelanta Corp., and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative but has not heard ...

The Everglades Law Center reported that environmental and civic groups, state and local governments, and advocates for ...

Not in a tropical environment? Sugar cane can grow anywhere with warm summers. Its extremely fast growth allows you to plant ...

The 11th Circuit agreed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that lowering water levels in Lake Okeechobee was needed to due ...

If the sugar companies had won their lawsuit, the Army Corps of Engineers would have had to rewrite LOSOM and redesign the ...

BELLE GLADE, Fla.—Of all the cane sugar produced in the United States, half of it originates in a remote area of Florida’s heartland, where from fall to spring the fires burn. The region south ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Agricultural Autonomy Institute, or AAI, is a new partner with the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida or SCGC. The kick-off meeting, held on ...

U.S. Sugar Corp., Okeelanta Corp. (Florida Crystals) and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative lost their lawsuit. Sugar farmers sued over how much Lake Okeechobee water is available to them for crop ...