Mega-drought puts an end to sugar cane cultivation in the parched Texas border region

Tudor Uhlhorn has been too busy auctioning off farm equipment to lament the “death” of Texas’ last sugar mill. “I’m as sad as anyone else,” said the chairman of the board of directors of the Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers cooperative, which owns the now-closed plant in Santa Rosa, a small town about 40 miles … Read more