Posted by Stan - Florida on December 03, 2012 at 09:54:29 from (97.103.151.31):
Last month we spent a couple of days in southern Louisiana. While there we took a little trip down to New Iberia to tour the Tabasco factory. We took some back roads and saw many, many acres of sugarcane. I stopped at Hi-Crop Equipment, the John Deere dealer there, and met some great people, Mitchell and Alison, in particular.
I'm curious about how sugarcane is harvested...we saw some machines off in the distance, but not close enough to get a good look. I've watched a couple of You-Tube videos on the subject, but how do the leaves get separated from the stems (if that's the proper term)? I assume that the stems get crushed at a mill and then the juice is processed into sugar.
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