At the field processor
Mar 24, 2015 08:24:27 #
Billets/stalks are taken to a processor and crushed/pressed to extract syrup. Field processors are close to the cane fields- and seem to be about every thirty miles or so apart while refineries are hundreds of miles apart. Cane processors begin and stop at the same time. Once processing begins in late October, it continues 24/7 until the harvest is complete- about 90 days. Some raw syrup is sold for use as various forms of sweetner to include animal feed but most syrup is boiled down until it crystalizes as raw sugar- then loaded on barges, trucks or whatever and hauled to a refinery. Cane fiber waste is burned as fuel to power generators and provide heat for the cooking process. There have been attempts to use the fibrous pulp as a paper making material.
Billets into the hopper and on to processing
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Truck loads of billets being dumped
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Mar 25, 2015 08:17:16 #
Very Interesting. The second picture of the trucks being emptied is quite a surprise. Thanks for a peek into the cane sugar industry.
Mar 25, 2015 08:48:43 #
DragonsLady wrote:
Very Interesting. The second picture of the trucks being emptied is quite a surprise. Thanks for a peek into the cane sugar industry.
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Mar 25, 2015 19:34:58 #
fuminous, not exactly the way it was done in the plantation days. It was a little more labor intensive. Thanks for posting.
Don
Don
Mar 25, 2015 19:54:17 #
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