In Canada, as well as the U.K. and Australia, December 26 is now better known as a day for scooping up shopping deals, similar to Black Friday in the U.S. Most stores open their doors early and discount prices on items ranging from clothing to technology to appliances.
In the United States, sugar cane is grown commercially in Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Texas and Puerto Rico. It could also be grown, and used to be, in much of Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and nearly all of Mississippi.
(November 2012) The US Sugar Corporation is a large privately owned agricultural business based in Clewiston, Florida. The company farms over 187,858 acres of land in the counties of Hendry, Glades and Palm Beach. It is the largest producer of sugar cane in the United States, producing over 700,000 tonnes per year.