If sugar cane has piqued your interested in growing other tropical crops, try your hand at cultivating the nutty and nutrient-rich roots of cassava, a staple crop in South America, Asia and Africa.

When growing sugar beets in your garden, patience is the key because it can take around 80 to 100 days for them to reach ...

Simon, at the American Sugar Cane League, said all 11 sugar mills in Louisiana use bagasse as fuel. “We are in essence biorefineries. We grow our own energy,” he said.

Spanish Hawaiian Heritage Association will host an international conference at UC Davis in September – a celebration of their ...

Simon, at the American Sugar Cane League, said all 11 sugar mills in Louisiana use bagasse as fuel. “We are in essence biorefineries. We grow our own energy,” he said.

But sugar production and consumption endured. The German inventor Karl Franz Achard developed an industrial process for extracting sucrose from beet roots instead of sugar cane.

Snow protected sugar cane roots, but strawberries and winter pastures took a hit. No major livestock losses have been reported, though farmers face rising feed costs. The freeze may have killed ...

There was one dramatic sugar crash in U.S. history—wartime rationing, which began in the spring of 1942. Armies were burning or cutting off access to Pacific cane fields, and the war effort ...

The first sip belies the smoothness of cane sugar and light carbonation inside. There's a little bubbling when it hits your tongue, but mostly you get a creamy concoction that lets the flavor ...

Much of what consumers buy is marked “sustainable,” “humane” or “green.” In the sugar cane fields of India, that papered over the worst abuses. By Megha Rajagopalan Megha Rajagopalan ...

That damaged cane roots, and may force producers to replant or face a smaller harvest in the upcoming season. It also followed a long dry spell since last October, which curbed yields.