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 ...

A group of investors is trying to reopen a sugar mill that closed due to drought and lack of water payments from Mexico. The sugar mill in Santa Rosa — the only ...

TROY, Ala. — Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Joe Todd of Todd Farms in Dothan said "Amen" to that. The seventh-generation syrup-maker ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...