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  • Hurricane damage to cane, refineries has domestic sugar price up

    11/20/2005 6:56:22 AM PST · by WestTexasWend · 2 replies · 264+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Sunday, November 20, 2005
    ERATH, La. (AP) - When the wave of black water descended on this town, the fields of sugarcane were ripe, tall, green shoots bursting with sugar. "This entire field was a lake," recalled Clay DuPlantis, standing in one of the decimated fields his family has farmed for seven generations. Thousands of acres of cane ready to be harvested were soaked in saltwater as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pounded the Gulf of Mexico 35 miles away. When the sea water receded, much of the cane was damaged and the fields were filled with torn-off porches, picnic tables, splintered furniture and stinking...