Sugar Cane Processing Plant Drive By

[SwampDonkey]

Quite the operation and still after 50 years you can buy a 2 kg (5 lbs) bag for under $2 bucks. Sure must be good tax money in the sugar business. I laugh in Walmart, a sign $2.69 a bag over a pallet of bagged sugar, go in the grocery store and $1.69 on pallets. What is really wild, is Heinz 5% vinegar, $8.00 a jug. Any grocery store brand, $2-2.50 a jug. Exact same stuff. Get whatever you can.

[kantuckid]

Another history tidbit, the skillsaw was invented for cutting cane.

I thought it was the machete?    Same story for the stringtrimmer.
 Another personal theory I have is that string trimmers and chainsaws were invented by hand doctors. 
Personal cane history-I once followed a Mexican sugarcane dump truck with a broken tailgate, in a driving monsoon rain, for many miles on my motorcycle.
As for USA/world sugar prices they are heavily affected by various tariffs and laws around the globe. 
Vinegar has gone way up like most food stuffs. 

[beenthere]

Another history tidbit, the skillsaw was invented for cutting cane.

A source for that info? 
Not doubting it, but the first ones I recall were in the 50's and had a power cord. So thinking the cane (sugar?) cutting would be in the factory?
Just curious... brand was Skilsaw.
Summer of '55 I helped a kid build a house for his father and all cutting of wood was a hand saw. 
A mile up the road, a crew was building a house and had the new fangled Skilsaw. Some envy there..

[Jeff]

Another history tidbit, the skillsaw was invented for cutting cane.

That's a much more logical reason than why the chainsaw was invented!

[Don P]

In 1923 an article appeared in a New Orleans newspaper, stating that a new rotary blade machete for cutting sugar cane had been invented by one Edmund Michael. The article was read by a former Minneapolis real estate salesman, Joseph Sullivan, on the train, while enroute to the Florida land boom of the early 1920's. Salesman Sullivan reversed his direction and went back to NO, looked up Michaels and inspected his rotary machete. It consisted of a tiny rotary saw blade attached to the tip of a machete, crudely powered by a malted milk mixer motor. Sullivan told Michaels that if he would make a sturdier model, capable of sawing wood, he might be interested. Michaels did that and contacted Sullivan again. Michaels decided to name it "Skilsaw" and the men agreed to set up shop in Chicago.

They incorporated July 1, 1924, the Michael Electric Handsaw Company, most of the 25,000 shares subscribed by Sullivan who bought the company in 1926 and changed the name to Skilsaw Inc. The first year saw 400 saws sold at $160, in 1927 2,000. Lightweight die castings in 1929 and 4,000 sold. Then the crash, they expanded tool offerings and in 1935 came out with the model 77, I used to have Dad's. Being a lefty, it had its place but I never liked it, and gave it to a coworker who had another.

That was from Harold Warp's Pioneer Museum, they had a book in the gift shop describing most of the collection, and that man was a collector, we call it the prairie Smithsonian.

[Mooseherder]

I've seen 3 Trucks loaded with Corn this week.  They crate it on the harvester and send it to market that way. Also saw 2 truckloads of Cabbage boxed in the fields and 2 loads of bulk red potatoes on the road.  The sugar plant appeared to be idle with no steam running in the stacks.  The workers vehicles were in the Parking lot so maybe it's maintenance time.  Most of the yard full of equipment brought in from the fields.  There was more tractors parked along the White building in the background.   I think there was at least 75 JD Tractors on the grounds today.

[Mooseherder]

There is another Sugar Cane Plant north of this one on Connor Hwy. on the way to Canal Point.  This video is north of that second plant.  Its called Port Mayaca which is in-between Canal Point and Okeechobee.  I'm headed south with Lake Okeechobee on the right.  The Canal you see goes east to Stuart/Port St. Lucie.  Boats get lifted at the Locks and can cross the Lake to the Gulf side of Florida.  Roland Martin's is at other side Locks.  They run fishing tournaments out of there.  

[Mooseherder]

I heard watermelon harvest has started but haven't seen them yet.  Here's a short video of a load of radishes.  Who buys radishes?!
That semi dump probably hauls construction debris after hours.  Better wash your vegetables. 

load of radishes - YouTube

[thecfarm]

I do hope no one has to count them all.