U.S.A.: CALIFORNIA FARMERS LICK THE SUGAR SHORTAGE -- THEY GROW THEIR OWN

Record ID: 1063381

  • Title: U.S.A.: CALIFORNIA FARMERS LICK THE SUGAR SHORTAGE -- THEY GROW THEIR OWN
  • Date: 5th December 1974
  • Summary: 1. SVs Smith and Newborn working on refining equipment (4 shots) 0.19 2. SV Cane being processed. 0.24 3. CU Newborn speaks 0.29 4. GV Canefield 0.35 5. SV Furnace being stoked 0.40 6. CU Smith speaking 0.56 7. SVs Cane being refined into molasses (8 shots) 1.27 COMMENTARY: "Henry Newborn and Judy Smith have an answer to skyrocketing sugar prices: grow your own. The two Sacramento men came to California from the Mississippi delta, and brought with them. They started growing cane as a hobby, to prove to farmers who said it couldn't be done in California that it could. Making sugar sounds so easy in their eyes that it makes you wonder why the prices are so high." NEWBORN: "You got several processes you got to go through with it. You got the ground and you got to grow it, then you grind it, then you cook it." COMMENTARY: "Sugar costs so much now that the two men are thinking of expanding their one acre to five next year so they can sell their product, They say there's no limit to how much sugar cane they can grow." SMITH: "If I was a young man, I dont't Know, I'd probably make a young fortune. Because I could supply the city here with sugar if I had about thirty, forty acres." COMMENTARY: "Smith had his grandfather's 1892 sugar cane mill flown in from Louisiana. Powered by a horse, it squeezed the juice from cane. The juice is then cooked in vats for about five hours until it becomes molasses. Cook the molasses longer and it becomes sugar. The men figure they'll get 200 pounds of sugar and 75 pounds of molasses for their efforts. If you think that's too much trouble, go to a store and price the sugar. Theirs cost them 15 cents a pound. This is Lynn Jones." Initials BB/1611 TH/PN/BB/1623 TVN reporter Lynn Jones visited their farm. His commentary, plus the comments of the two men, is transcribed overage. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th December 1974 12:00
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  • Location: SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, USA
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  • Country: USA
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