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.

SANTA ROSA, Texas (Border Report) — Miles of what once were thriving sugar cane fields in this rural part of South Texas are now just dirt due to the lack of water from Mexico on which growers here ...

All rum is distilled from sugarcane, and most rum is distilled from molasses, a byproduct of sugar production. Most distilleries, however, have little direct control over how the cane is cultivated ...

SANTA ROSA, Texas (Border Report) — 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 one ...

The sugar cane industry, while producing a $4.2 billion annual economic impact in Louisiana, creates tons of waste product every year. What to do with that waste has long been a problem for sugar ...