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cane sug·ar • n. sugar obtained from sugar cane.


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Sugar Cane A Destiny Manifest in South Carolina Family.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
; ...sable hands was tall, purple stalks of sugar cane. Mounds of it were piled at his feet...powered by a horse named Rooster. As the sugar cane was crushed between thick metal cylinders...finally fell into a tin washtub. This sugar cane juice would become sugar cane syrup ... Read more
Sugar Cane
; ...Rangoon -- love to chew on fibrous sugar cane for a taste of the flavorful syrup. A principal source of sucrose, sugar cane is a perennial grass that is believed...around Washington are not stocking sugar cane for people who make their own sugar... Read more
Sweet 'n' slow Sugar cane trucks still clog roads in Cajun country
; ...of the year because of "trucks hauling sugar cane." It is peak season for the biggest crop...under loads of thousands of stalks of sugar cane crawl across the landscape like prehistoric...duress, but the mills do a good job. Sugar cane may be a small industry compared to cotton... Read more
Sugar cane harvest under way in Santa Rosa, Texas, region.
; ...squeezing out sweetness for the 32nd sugar cane season in the Rio Grande Valley. More than 270,000 tons of sugar cane has been produced so far at the W...mill. Santa Rosa is home to the only sugar cane mill in Texas. There were once five... Read more
Bumper sugar cane crop in Louisiana to fetch low price
; ...farmers are approaching the end of a good sugar cane harvest. "It's been one of the better...quite some time," said Dr. Ben Legendre, sugar cane specialist with the LSU AgCenter. Legendre...first week of the new year. "The 2007 sugar cane crop in Louisiana turned out to be a... Read more
Sweetest fuel in Texas: Turning sugar cane into ethanol could benefit Valley.
; ...stations was made using, not corn, but sugar cane, one of that South American country's chief crops. Da Silva, a sugar cane researcher at the Texas Agricultural...world that it can produce fuel from sugar cane, he said. I saw numerous filling... Read more
Stirring in sugar cane's sweetness
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 08-02-2006 Stirring in sugar cane's sweetness By DONNA PIERCE, CHICAGO...delicious juice from peeled stalks of sugar cane. But unless you frequent Hispanic and...American markets, you may be unfamiliar with sugar cane. Recently, while shopping for produce... Read more
SUGAR CANE PULP AS FUEL.(Brief Article)
; Sugar growers are convinced that sugar cane pulp is the future of the business, reports...hopes are now focused on a project to use sugar cane pulp to produce alcohol which could then...electricity. The Dominican Federation of Sugar Cane Growers says the Government could save... Read more
Valley sugar cane could set new record.
; ...indications compiled by the Rio Grande Sugar Cane Growers Inc., the amount of cane...the record 1.7 million tons of sugar cane harvested during the 2005-06 season...industry officials said. The Valley sugar cane industry averages some 1.6 million... Read more
Cabinet orders review sugar cane price, NATION
; ...Nation (Thailand) 12-09-1998 LOBBYING sugar cane planters scored a victory Tuesday as...revise an earlier decision on the new sugar cane price for the current season. The Cabinet...planters if the preliminary price of sugar cane is lower than the cost of planting. Industry... Read more

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SIC 2062 Cane Sugar Refining
SIC 2062 CANE SUGAR REFINING This entry includes establishments primarily engaged in refining purchased raw cane sugar and sugar syrup. Sugar cane is cut and milled into raw cane sugar, then shipped in that... Read more
SIC 2061 Cane Sugar, Except Refining
SIC 2061 CANE SUGAR, EXCEPT REFINING This classification includes...finished (granulated or clarified) sugar from sugar cane. Establishments primarily engaged in refining...sugar syrup are classified in SIC 2062: Cane Sugar Refining. Plantations primarily involved... Read more
cane sugar
cane sugar Sucrose extracted from the sugar cane Saccharum officinarum ; identical with sucrose prepared from any other source, such as sugar beet. See sugar . Read more
sugar cane
sugar cane The tropical grass, Saccharum officinarum ; the juice of the stems contains about 15% sucrose and provides much of the world's sugar production. Read more
sugar cane
sugar cane See SACCHARUM . Read more

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