White granulated sugar can be made either from sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) or sugar beets. Cane sugar is the type made from sugarcane. The sucrose molecules in both types of sugar are ...

The special screening of "Bittersweet Muck" will take place at 2 p.m. at the Mandel Library. A discussion will follow.

It's that time of year again in Louisiana: the sugar cane harvest. And officials are warning drivers about cane trucks on the highways that will be delivering up to 100,000-pound loads daily and ...

The difference between cane sugar and granulated sugar is how it’s processed. Recently, I was checking out a promising recipe ...

When Florida's pre-harvest sugar cane burning season began on Oct. 3 with fires across 160 acres of land, the state's department of agriculture, which authorizes the blazes, proclaimed the day the ...

In this video, we take you through the fascinating process of producing sugar from sugar cane, revealing how raw cane is transformed into the sweet crystals we use every day.The journey begins in ...

Louisiana's sugar cane production is booming. Despite a severe drought, the state's 2023 harvest produced more than 1.8 million tons of sugar. The number of acres of sugar cane harvested has been ...

Two to three people in South Florida die prematurely each year because of exposure to pollution from sugar cane fires, a study released this month has found. The study, led by Florida State ...

The mill started up Monday Oct. 7, and for the next 100 days, Lafourche Sugars will operate 24/7 to extract as much raw sugar as it can from 1 million tons of cane. Unlike other sugarcane ...

In short: Scientists have mapped the entire sugar cane genome, allowing farmers to grow the crop for other uses. There's hope this will help diversify Australia's cane industry after three ...