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Extreme drought ends sugar cane farming in arid Texas border

Tudor Uhlhorn was too busy auctioning off farm equipment to lament the “death” of Texas’ last sugar mill. “I’m as upset as anyone,” said the chairman of the board of directors of the Rio Grande Valley Sugar Planters cooperative, which owned a now-shuttered mill in Santa Rosa, a small town about 40 miles from Brownsville.… Read More »