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Australia's sugar fields escape major cyclone damage
2014-02-04 07:09:32| Sugar Industry News
Australia's sugar industry, the world's third-biggest exporter, appears to have escaped major damage from a cyclone that swept across main growing regions earlier on Friday. So far there had been no reports of wide-scale damage to the cane growing regions in the path of the cyclone, though the full impact will not become clear until growers has been able to venture back into soggy fields, according to the sector's representative group Canegrowers.
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You can\'t sugarcoat the sugar industry\'s greed
2014-02-04 07:09:32| Sugar Industry News
When it comes to money-fueled influence peddling, few special interest groups rival the sugar industry, which according to the Heritage Foundation has spent some $50 million over the last five years to preserve its near-monopolistic stranglehold on the U.S. market. A pretty sweet deal, eh? In a time when the president decries money in politics and greed, it\'s the kind of investment that would make Gordon Gekko blush. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/31/you-cant-sugarcoat-the-sugar-industrys-greed/#ixzz2sKaVxi5T
Sugar Dock gets some lovin' with cleanup
2014-02-03 16:12:59| Waste Management - Topix.net
Cleaning the shores of Saipan is something that 5-year-old Ulumar Ogumoro-Uludong considers fun and he wishes that more people his age would make an effort to pick up trash as well.
Sugar tycoon Alfonso Fanjul now open to investing in Cuba under right circumstances\'
2014-02-03 06:51:49| Sugar Industry News
Alfonso Fanjul fled Cuba as a young man, leaving behind his family\'s mansions and vast sugar-cane fields as they were being wrested away by the communist Castro regime. In exile in the United States, he built an even larger sugar empire, amassing one of North America\'s great fortunes and befriending members of Congress and presidents who benefited from his largesse. The sting of his family\'s forced departure from Cuba led him to become one of the principal funders of the U.S. anti-Castro movement.
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Peterson: Six years later, questions about Imperial Sugar catastrophe remain
2014-02-03 06:51:49| Sugar Industry News
On Feb. 7, 2008 six years ago this Friday much of the Imperial Sugar Co. plant at Port Wentworth blew up. Fourteen people died; 39 were hurt.
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