Biotech start-up has genetically optimized microbes to produce diesel fuel from sugar cane. Its first plant, in California, will be followed by a commercial plant in Brazil. Martin LaMonica is a ...

Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most important economic food and energy crops. Its soaring stalks ...

As far back as 8000 B.C., the people of New Guinea chewed on the stalks of the indigenous sugar cane plant, savoring its sweet, juicy flavor. In 510 B.C., when Darius I invaded India, he was ...

New construction is set to begin next month on a $70 million renewable fuel plant in southwest Louisiana that will convert sugar cane bagasse into fuel pellets. The facility was set to begin ...

WAHPETON, N.D. -- Cargill corn wet milling plant has had but one top manager in the plant's 14-year history -- Richard "Red" Geurts. Geurts was named the plant's first manager for the corn fructose ...

Consumers are increasingly scrutinizing sugar types, comparing cane and beet sugar due to health and ethical concerns. While ...

Kō Hana Distillery prides itself in owning the largest sugar cane farm in Hawai‘i and creating rum directly from the plant, says farm manager Jakob Dewald. “What makes us truly unique is we’re making ...