It used to be the water spilled over Lake Okeechobee’s southern shore, flowing eventually into the sawgrass prairies of the Florida Everglades. For thousands of years the marsh vegetation flourished ...

Coming off a pivotal legislative session and heading into election season, Florida’s largest sugar growers have given more than $6 million in campaign contributions to state races and thousands more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Florida's pre-harvest sugar cane burning season began on Oct. 3 with fires across 160 acres of land, the state's department ...

But Florida clean water advocates are urging the public to support candidates who don’t take money from the industry. Sugar cane grows in a large field owned by the US Sugar Corp. as a rainstorm rolls ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Last year, the Florida Legislature was in the midst of an extraordinary push to protect the state’s farming industry from lawsuits over air pollution. Supporters argued ...

When Florida's pre-harvest sugar cane burning season began on Oct. 3 with fires across 160 acres of land, the state's department of agriculture, which authorizes the blazes, proclaimed the day the ...