Agricultural Autonomy Institute (AAI) is a new partner with the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida (SCGC). The ...

The practice of cutting off the tough outer husks of sugar cane stalks as an alternative to burning them off in pre-harvest fires has been adopted almost everywhere the crop is grown. Known as "green ...

It is harvest time at the U.S. Sugar Corporation in Clewiston in this photo from March 2005. Leah Nash Miami Herald file photo Orlando, Fla. It used to be the water spilled over Lake Okeechobee’s ...

Citing federal civil rights law, the Sierra Club and its Glades-based Stop the Burn campaign are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department ...

Acre after acre of sugar cane fields in Palm Beach County. (Photo via Florida Sugar Growers Co-op) In 1960, the TV show “The Twilight Zone” aired an irony-soaked episode called “Eye of the Beholder” ...

SOUTH BAY, Fla. — From a distance it looks as if tornadoes are churning in the fields. But as you get closer, you see that the dark plumes are clouds of black smoke. And if your smell is keen enough, ...

Three sugar-farming companies have appealed lawsuits they lost against the Army Corps of Engineers over how much Lake Okeechobee water is available to them for crop irrigation. U.S. Sugar Corp., ...