Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas borderland
by Lela Nargi from Environment | The Guardian on (#6MEZR)
The state's last sugar processing mill closed because there's just not enough water in the Rio Grande to share between the US and Mexico
Tudor Uhlhorn has been too busy auctioning off agricultural equipment to grieve the death" of Texas's last sugar mill.
I'm as sad as anyone else," said the chairman of the board of the Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers cooperative, which owns the now-shuttered mill in Santa Rosa, a small town about 40 miles from Brownsville. I just haven't had a whole lot of time to mourn."
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