{"id":4135,"date":"2016-11-30T19:57:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T00:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteaderdepot.com\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2016-11-30T19:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T00:57:53","slug":"harvesting-sugar-cane-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/2016\/11\/30\/harvesting-sugar-cane-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Sugar Cane (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sugar is a huge part of the American diet, and yet a lot of people don’t even think about how it grows or how it’s harvested. Entire nations and states have had their entire economies centered around sugar, a very valuable commodity that is pretty labor-intensive.<\/p>\n

These days, big agro sugar cane fields have plenty of industrial equipment to make this labor-intensive crop easier to plant, tend and harvest.<\/p>\n

I thought this video of harvesting sugar cane on a homestead was pretty cool. I love seeing how things are\/were done without big industrial equipment, especially by small homesteaders. Check it out!<\/p>\n