My PawPaw used to tell about how when a truck carrying sugar cane would come down the street in Attalla, how he and the other kids would run after it, trying to get stalks down to chew on. He said it was just so delicious. What you do is cut off the outer layer, then sort-of just press the sugar in the inside out by biting down on it (then you spit out what's left).
Every Passover, Coke produces some bottles with its old recipe using pure sugar (they all have yellow caps), since we can't consume corn products (and Coke now uses corn syrup as a sweetener) during the holiday. The Dublin, Texas Dr. Pepper plant still uses sugar cane as sweetener in all its non-diet Dr. Pepper products every day, and they ship! Yay!
My favorite....cotton. This crop is almost ready for defoliating (when about 50 or 60% fo the bolls are open, the crop gets defoliate sprayed on it. The defoliate makes the leaves fall off, which makes picking the cotton much cleaner and allows the farmer to harvest the cotton quicker).
Swamp
Three Pics : Sugar Cane, Cotton, and Swamp
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