Posted on 01/06/2016 8:23:05 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
Hawaii’s last sugar plantation will wind down by the end of this year, its owner announced today.
Alexander & Baldwin Inc. said it will phase out sugarcane farming on Maui at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. over the next 12 months and transition the 36,000-acre farm to a diversified crop model.
A&B said many employees will be laid off starting in March as their specific functions are completed, and that about half of the 675 HC&S workers will be retained through the end of the last harvest late this year.
Company leaders said the decision was reached with “great regret†and was based partly on HC&S losing $30 million last year.
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Thanks for the mention. Interesting.
I remember when most of the north slope of Oahu from Wahiawa to Haliewa was nothing but sugar cane fields. Market forces at work.
I have used exclusively C&H my whole life. I am really sad to hear about this. Need to research who else makes cane sugar, not beet sugar.
Who needs sugar, when there’s HFCS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreckels,_California
Spreckles California, Once largest sugar beet plant
I don’t believe I saw that C & H is dead yet. It also gets sugar cane from other places than Hawaii.
I agree with your sentiments, but don’t give up just yet.
Okay ;) I was thinking maybe I needed to run to the grocery store, clear their shelves and figure out where to store tons of sugar. Well, not that much obviously but I really don’t ever want to have to buy beet sugar.
I have a recipe for zucchini bread that I found on a box of C&H brown sugar many, many years ago. I’ve never used anything other than C&H. I hope we’re not going to see sugar from China....ever.
And it stinks like a million rotting corpses.
“And it stinks like a million rotting corpses.”
All sugar beet factories, do.
I lived near one as a young child in Colorado, in Fort Morgan. I later knew of two in Orange County California, since closed. Santa Ana, and Huntington Beach.
Like I said imported sugar cane competes with American sugar beets not sugar cane.
If the US government heavily restricts imports of Mexican sugar cane despite NAFTA I don’t see the flood gates opened for Cuban sugar cane.
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