Sugar Cane Growers Presentation

 On Tuesday, February 15, 2022  our RV park brought in a public relations spokesman for the Sugar Cane Growers Association of Texas.  He was an excellent public speaker.

He explained how sugar cane is planted, cultivated, and harvested in only three counties of southern Texas.  He explained how and why they burn the crop before it is harvested once a year.  He also showed a movie of the entire process.  We learned that sugar cane is like asparagus - it keeps growing after it is cut and harvested.  A rotation crop is only introduced about every 6-7 years after which the sugar cane must then be replanted. There is only one large sugar cane processing plant in Texas and the entire sugar crop goes to Domino Foods.
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