The latest Tales From TikTok involves Dieffenbachia plants, commonly known as “Dumb Cane.” These striking houseplants have a troubling history connected to slavery. Paige Tailyn Johnson, a plant ...

Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most important economic food and energy crops. Its soaring stalks ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Cane plants can get a little unsightly when they eventually drop their bottom leaves to become bare. But there are a few ways to remedy that situation, and by doing so, you end ...

WAHPETON, N.D. -- Cargill corn wet milling plant has had but one top manager in the plant's 14-year history -- Richard "Red" Geurts. Geurts was named the plant's first manager for the corn fructose ...

From the sugar cane fields of the St. Louis Planting Company in Plaquemine to the Cora Texas Manufacturing Company in White Castle the process of refining sugar in the state has Louisiana as America's ...

Gardeners never like to give up on a plant, whether it’s your own or one you purchased on sale in need of some major TLC. Revive a declining dieffenbachia with a bit of pruning and start a few new ...

Biotech start-up has genetically optimized microbes to produce diesel fuel from sugar cane. Its first plant, in California, will be followed by a commercial plant in Brazil. Martin LaMonica is a ...