Is Palm Beach County's public health agency abdicating its responsibility when it comes to sugar cane burning? The answer unfortunately is an emphatic "yes," despite evidence the fires can sicken ...

Agricultural Autonomy Institute (AAI) is a new partner with the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida (SCGC). The ...

Citing federal civil rights law, the Sierra Club and its Glades-based Stop the Burn campaign are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department ...

Cane toads secrete a toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including dogs and cats.

(Gene McAvoy comments in response to the letter to the editor, "Leadership needed on cane burning," by Deirdre Ruffino, which appeared Nov. 13. Ruffino's letter reacted to a series of investigative ...

Let’s hop on a cull. An alligator might eat your pet, but there’s a much sneakier predator lurking out there, waiting to harm your furriest family members — if you live in waterlogged Southern Florida ...

Acre after acre of sugar cane fields in Palm Beach County. (Photo via Florida Sugar Growers Co-op) In 1960, the TV show “The Twilight Zone” aired an irony-soaked episode called “Eye of the Beholder” ...

SOUTH BAY, Fla. — From a distance it looks as if tornadoes are churning in the fields. But as you get closer, you see that the dark plumes are clouds of black smoke. And if your smell is keen enough, ...

It is harvest time at the U.S. Sugar Corporation in Clewiston in this photo from March 2005. Leah Nash Miami Herald file photo Orlando, Fla. It used to be the water spilled over Lake Okeechobee’s ...

Three sugar-farming companies have appealed lawsuits they lost against the Army Corps of Engineers over how much Lake Okeechobee water is available to them for crop irrigation. U.S. Sugar Corp., ...

Editorials from The Palm Beach Post Editorial Board are the opinions of the Board, not of the Post newsroom. Is Palm Beach County's public health agency abdicating its responsibility when it comes to ...

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University’s Agricultural Autonomy Institute, or AAI, is a new partner with the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida or SCGC. The kick-off meeting, held on campus ...