Sugar cane can grow anywhere with warm summers. Its extremely fast growth allows you to plant a segment of sugar cane in spring and see a 15-foot tall stand of the grass by summer’s end.

Sugar cane is easy to grow and propagate, a highly efficient plant with an extensive root system. It can be grown as a windbreak, as Koo suggests, along perimeters of gardens.

Propagating sugar cane is simple. Take a 3-foot section of cane with at least six bud-eyes. These are the little bumps at the base of leaves -- embryonic stalks about to emerge.

Sugar cane is easy to grow, easy to harvest and easy to process into something that’s delicious and very gift-worthy for the holidays. Try a bed this year – you’ll be glad you did.

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Sugar cane farming allowed on government-owned land in South Florida adds to Everglades water pollution threats, even as taxpayers spend billions to clean up the River of Grass.

Economists are working on ways to put a price on the environmental damage of growing food. Take sugar: Half of what we eat comes from beets, half from cane. Each has an impact, in very different ways.

He spends between $600 and $700 per acre growing his sugar cane, between equipment, land and labor; the more he grows, the more he can sell. "Farming isn't about making money," he said.

Large-scale Hawaii sugar cane farming ceased in December after 181 years with the closure of a Maui plantation that once was among more than 150 in the islands. But deep in a Windward Oahu valley ...

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