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.
All Florida sugarcane is destined for one of the five sugarcane mills in south Florida. Corporations that grow their own cane and extract the sugar in their own mills produce over 65% of the cane. Independent growers for grower-owned cooperative mills produce another large portion, 25-30%.