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.
About 70% of sugar is produced from sugarcane, and the remaining 30% from sugarbeet, a root crop resembling a large parsnip grown mostly in the temperate zones of the northern hemisphere. Meet farmer Joe. He is one of the thousands of farmers in Australia who grow sugarcane.