@@CruiseControlM3no that’s got nothing to do with us. We’re talking deep greed and small circles at the top of the society who make choices that benefit them with little care what happens down the line.
To quote Obama, "Voting has consequences." Stop voting Democrat is a good start. Then research the rest of those running as representative in your area and hold them accountable for situations like this. Notice I didn't say "Vote Republican", and I didn't for a reason.
I moved to Houston in 1988, there used to be sugar cane fields as far as the eye could see. In 2003 Imperial Sugar closed its doors. Now it’s a museum. The cane fields are gone.
I live in Louisiana but for a short time as a kid I grew up in sugar land texas. A lot of peoples parents including my mother worked at that factory. I remember running through the cane fields. Those days like the sugar are long gone. Now it’s just a trendy yuppie area.
@@jibril2473 It's not. The United States sold it's populace out to jews and chinese. We are ruled by criminals that profit off our misery and impoverishment.
@@tc539 Sounds like the absolute worst possible option available. Congratulations, you did it. I’m sure a lot of people wondered just how bad your decision would be, but you left them satisfied that there’s no worse option. Stand up and take a bow. 👏
As Chip Roy, GOP from Texas said..."One thing: I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing-one-that I can go campaign on and say we did. One! - explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.”
@@magaareinbredhillbillies Yeah, at least the Democrats can claim high food prices, high rent prices, high real estate prices, lower wages, 11 million new illegals, etc., a lot accomplished in a short time.
@@user-ln7of9gs4s Yeah… do you have a point? Mexico has been breaking that treaty, which hurts Americans and our businesses and our ecosystems. It’s our governments job to see that Mexico follows their agreement, both government’s failed, but they don’t care because they’re not the sugar farmer who suffers the consequences…
Sad times in America. Our weak, incompetent so called leaders are destroying this beautiful country. First manufacturing, then the car industry, now our food production. Makes me sick to think about this country’s future and what it holds for my children and grandchildren. 😔
The classic line all the gullible boomers got fooled into believing and everyones still waiting for the wealth to trickle down while inequality remains worse than in the gilded age of the robber barons.
We don't have a climate crisis. We have a water management crisis. There's a drought on one side of the mountain and a flood on the other. Pray for rain and then pray it stops. We can develop a national water system that is on the scale of the freeway system to quickly transfer water anywhere in the country. Every time a factory closes a town suffers and we become more dependent on foreign goods brought by ships burning oil. Ships that may not come.
One day we will grow nothing due to development, pesticides, and lack of pollinators. Farmers worldwide are warning of an imminent collapse of farming.
I chased many a drug smuggler and illegal alien through those Sugarcane fields south of Harlingen, Texas in the 80’s and 90’s. Votes have consequences.
What is a president supposed to do? The current administration is already getting heavy push back from tejus when they address steps to stop climate change. So tell us... what is a president supposed to do from your perspective?
I agree with the previous comment. Government is the problem! When big corporations or “financial groups” get together with government, corruption with kill the industry!
Do you say this after a career of being involved on the local hospital board, or working to elect effective county commissioners, effective city leaders, state leaders? Volunteer work? Or do you say this because you are parroting the same things the boob tube is squawking about 24/7? Are you thinking and acting, or are you being told what to think? 🧐
Texas had had entrenched political leadership from the gun grabbing community for over three decades. And these self righteous sanctimonious shills still do business on the daily with the ‘water thieves’. You have to ask yourself at some point why the people you keep sending to lead state government are the same ones who do business, socialize and intermarry with the supposed ‘bad guys’ on the other side of the border. To an outsider, it might look like you are getting played for the chump.
Calm down. It’s sugarcane. Maybe there’s less water in part because it doesn’t rain so often anymore. No one is crying for this old boy when he sells farmland to the mall developers. I suspect he will do fine without sugar cane.
Plenty of land available to grow crops that doesn't rely on outside help for water. These people just refuse to go elsewhere. They've gotten accustomed to other people solving their issues.
@@kennethloki7011 Millionaires asking for a handout and complaining about the government in the same breath! I’m figuring out that when conservatives complain about something they are projecting their own defects on others to shield themselves from scrutiny.
Mexico broke the water treaty/ contract many decades ago. So the RGV on the USA side should be able to use all the water they need. Mexico doesn’t have no respect for any treaty that they signed with the USA. So if one of the party broke the treaty, the contract doesn’t exist.
water shortage is due to climate change and the treaty allows more time to deliver water in the event of extraordinary drought. It’s not even Mexico alone. It’s the upstream dams that are managed by both countries not wanting to release more water down stream due to their own shortage. They have only released 30 percent of the promised water over 5 years. The Rio grande is a river border that is shared so no one country has it all.
Does water not flow from North to South? Are we not North of Mexico? Is not possession 9/10 of the law? Do I need to spell it out or can you fill in the blanks. We need to take care of our own, especially our farmers.
This is a great video. Not because of the bad news it reports, but because it is reporting things that we are not seeing talked about elsewhere in the media. I live in South Carolina, but I am very interested in knowing that Texas is no longer producing sugar because of a lack of water resources from the Rio Grande when Mexico is not honoring the agreement made, and it is also important to me to know that the current administration is doing absolutely nothing to remedy this situation to the detriment of an entire agricultural industry in Texas. Very informative, and thank you.
1st off, the water flows through Texas 1st. Secondly, our Governor, LT. Governor, and Attorney General know what is happening with TX land, water resources, and waste. -These are not the first people to be impacted by Texas' land or water impacts, with local municipalities and state representatives doing almost nothing. We got a letter from our water company at the end of last year stating (this South Texas city) REQUIRED the water company to let us know that they had not checked our water, FOR LEAD....in years. However, the requirement from the city was that the water company test this, by the end of the year. Which allowed them months to address it. Not immediately. Additionally, some of our North Texas Farmers just had high PFAs found throughout their farms, with the source being city waste water whose biosolids had been reused for fertilizer. Only noticed, after many animals died. -How in the world, does a city or state allow this to go on from any operating plant or company ? - Could be funding, lobbying, or lack of oversight.
LOL, the fascists running Texas have made it clear that have no use for the Feds. Until the mouth breathers here start wising up and voting blue we'll get more garbage governance from Abbott and his fellow clowns...
Back in the early 80's in South Tx a farm bordered my elementary school playground, Seguin Elementary. They rotated Carrots and Sugar Cane. We would pull some occasionally and eat it while playing. The school remains but the farm was removed long ago for housing development. I left that school in 1986 and moved with the family to San Diego, California. In 2024 I moved my family back to Texas. Don't be so eager to lose what you have in the name of "progress". I've seen what that becomes and it's called "misery". This government and this administration seems focused on destroying farmers in this country in the name of "global warming" and it's lead by politicians and activist groups who only know the concrete jungle where stores are full and consumption is plenty.
Developments don't help many things, but fertilizers used in current and old school farming, has not helped humanity as much as you might think. Feel free to read what's happening with our farmers taking biosolids from Tx City wastewater, and creating fertilizers that are ending up being Toxic enough to kill off farm lands. We also just had a local water company tell us they had not checked for lead, in years when utilities are supposed to be regulated by the state. None of which have anything to do with anyone out of Texas.
I am not sure just what point you are trying to make. Texas is one of the eight states that has no state income tax. A ninth state, New Hampshire, does not tax earned wages.
@@joemag6032 ah but the outsized sales, property taxes, and special use assessments Texans pay more than make up for it. So they don't charge income tax, big whoop, the tax man is still getting his payday. It would take ostrich levels of self delusion to think otherwise.
I understand completely. We lost our last whole American own Corn Plant in our counrty. Family own, and they lived on property in building One. 1899. Not the highest paying in the city, but the treated everyone like family. Job for life. Not anymore. 😢😢😢😢😢
For your information: Chihuahua farmers have been blocking the release of water into the Rio Grande. Despite the fact that they are the most benefited by the 1948 treaty. The Mexican federal government has had to resort to drawing water from other dams in other states to pay the water debt. All that actions have been promoted by the Chihuahua governor to attack the mexican federal goverment. Even these actions are a felony, she is pretty sure her actions are covered by the impunity thanks to the privileges of her charge. The governor of Chihuahua has caused damage to Mexican and Texan farmers. That is a real crisis with a real person responsible. It is sad that neither President Biden nor Abbot have claimed that the governor of Chihuahua violates an international treaty.
Same thing happened to the steel industry and car industry and even the aluminum industry. One by one they all fall and leave America to set up shop in another country so they can continue with half or a quarter of the operating costs.
I was born in Napoleonville, in South Louisiana, along Bayou Lafourche. (Pronounced La Foosh) My Grandfather was a Sugarcane Farmer. He started with mules instead of tractors, and when he returned from "The Great War" (WW1), he worked hard, every day, from before sunup, till after dark. He spoke very little English, being a Cajun, and his French was an asset in France during the war. I still remember Miles and Miles and Miles of Sugarcane fields that we kids roamed far and wide. Bayous teeming with fish. Woodlands crawling with wildlife, and hunting and fishing were a necessity to feed our burgeoning families. Some of the sugarcane fields are still there, but there are Far fewer of them, and the mills are very few, now. Modern life has it's advantages, but I sure do miss our Rich and Boundless youth.
This water dispute goes back decades, starting with the US not releasing agreed-to amounts of water into the Rio Grande, and Mexico not feeding the Rio through Mexican tributaries.
Maybe you missed the part when he said this is part of an agreement/treaty signed in 1944. Stop blaming decades-old problems on whatever administration is currently in office. Biden blames Trump who blamed Obama who blamed Bush who blamed Clinton who blamed Reagan/Bush who blamed Carter. They’re ALL to blame.
The United States government doesn’t want small farmers to continue on. They want the big corporate farmers online. We saw the same in the EU. They also want your land and once they have it and sell it to the big corporations then they will enforce the water treaties.
Because the cane is thirsty. And historical water levels on the Rio Grande are falling. So farmers on both sides of the border are getting pissy over a shrinking resource. People used to say, ‘Don’t grow sugar cane in the desert.’ Idiots. It’s not a problem when you have government schemes to bring water to the desert. But now that’s gone. Maybe we should grow sugar cane in Mobile, which gets 2 1/2 times the rainfall of the RGV, and you don’t need a decade long government effort to bring irrigation to that region.
I live 8 miles from it and the issues are we cannot get any water from mexico to grow our crops..Our president drags his ass and could care less about what mexico does. the sugar mill could not get any water this year at all.and we have had very little rain..all of our crops are going to be way down by over 68% with huge losses. Corn , Milo, Cotton and others are burning up in the fields currently. It is so sad
Hmmmm....we have a problem with Mexico about water...and not all the illegal immigrants coming across???? Something really wrong with this administration....
Sugar beets are a cold climate crop as seen in the map at the end of this video (Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, etc.). Sugar beets came over with Northern European immigrants in the 1800s. In the early 1900s northern Colorado to Wyoming and Nebraska had the Great Western Sugar mills and factories for vast sugar beet farms all based on irrigation - down to just two working mills. Today more and more farmland is becoming “little enclaves on the prairie” as more people move in. The arid West cannot sustain this current population growth, and certainly will not be able to feed the development boom.
I’ve picked up tons and tons of sugar from the Sugarland plant when I drove a truck. There were 2000lb bags and 50lb bags. Brown sugar white sugar powdered sugar. In the warehouse it smelled sweet from all the sugar dust on everything. When all our farms and manufacturing plants have closed down and the American worker runs out of work. The Government will be happy to own us. Smh.
It’s time to make a change! If the water starts in the United States , we use what we need ! We need to be careful about how much water we use! Mexico doesn’t care about how much water it uses, or keeping up with the treaty’s that it has agreed to!
A large percentage of water comes from mexico, particularly the conchos river in chihuahua. If the mexican government cut the flow from that river, the rio grand would almost completely dry up.
@@faisalghiar First... direct conflict. Monsanto is the global leader in sugar beat seed. So the claim they have this super FDA position to do as they wish... just to complete with existing product? Dumb. Second. The OP (that has yet to respond in first person) does not cite the individual. I suspect they are referencing somebody from.... 2016. And he was far from heading the FDA. He actually advocated for safety, not corporations.
Take a look around, not just sugar😝 America is killing its own people, breaking their backs, their pocketbook, keeping them poor, no manufacturing jobs!
Don't feel bad yaw...They shut down the papper mill that had been here in Taylor Co. Since the 1950's.....Koch Brosnan. Won't say why but I think it had something to do with the massive amounts of water that were pumped out of the Aguafers deep in the woods behind the mill as papper mills require alot of water. Those 20-250 hp pumps moved 60 million gallons per day.😮 So now Every pine tree is taken to a different pappermill.....seems like a waste of fuel for the Koch Bros but I guess there paying extra. We had a major hurricane come through and then the pappermill.
I’m a beekeeper and I need up to 1 ton of sugar annually to feed my bees in spring and autumn and yes they double the price in short periods of time. This is a very important. To keep the FARMERS ACTIVE so that the workers can provide for their families. Hopefully this will be addressed soon by the government or department of agriculture.
I’m torn on this issue, although sugar is a terrible product for humans to consume, I feel bad for the farmers for not having their treaty upheld to have access to the water for them to supply people with the products they want. If a group of people have a treaty granting them access to water it doesn’t matter what they’re using the water for, it’s still technically theirs.
Sugar industry has been controversial since the beginning of the plantations . A couple of searches and you can get a small understanding of the situation.
My property has a creek that ends up in the Rio, it’s not just the river, it’s the dry aquifers as well. All the old Army corp of engineering swales around me, have been decommissioned and destroyed. Those things did hold back water from the rivers, but the also feed the groundwater. So many greedy people out there.
Rice university released a very good report on sugar cane's gradual decline in the fifties, and how labor was impacted when slaves were replaced with convicts. It also notes how Texas did not regain it's strength for sugar production due to low profits and reduced weather output, during and after the war. Ultimately leading to the multitude of cotton crops we see today.
I lived in Baytown & while we import illegal aliens we also import products we used to make state side Sheldon, TX champion paper mill as an Iron worker now its a paper recycling plant
There was 1 Federal Congresswoman, Monica Dela Cruz from district 15, that tried to do something about this and even brought this up in the House of Reps not to long ago. I guess that fell upon deaf ears.
The Government needs to go. We need to make America run without help from other countries the best we can. Then we ask for help and work together. How it shouldve been. Chinas growing we're sinking
Starts with our state! Don’t see why we can’t derive other sources of water!! Just opened another reservoir up north Why not build one for the RGV?? Desalination plants??
im just glad we sent $61B to the Ukraine. interestingly enough, theyve just set record sales for range rovers and Mercedes there as well. thats weird, huh?
I’m not from Texas, I’m from the Carolina’s, but this makes me so sad !! I can’t believe this has happened and apparently no one in a position to step in to get control of it, isn’t doing so. Like so many other things in our country, businesses that have been around a long time, are slowly going away. My thoughts and prayers go out to you all & I’m sorry you basically have to watch it happen and can’t do anything about it. That’s sickening to me and makes me as mad as it does sad. I wish there was another option for you, besides closing down. May God bless each of you.
The sugar industry in Hawaii was a major economic factor for Hawaii 100+ years with an abundance of sugarcane fields and mills on all four major islands, the sugar industry in Hawaii started to dwindle in the late 80’s through the 90’s and the last sugar mill in the entire state shut down in 2016 the Puunene mill on the island of Maui signifying the end of an era.
People have been told for years about water conservation. Industrial pollution along with agriculture runoff has caused so much damage. SMH. Cry me a river why don’t you. Same can be said of poultry farming and hog farming. Clean up your damn mess.
New hemp will be grown for feed. No soil degradation,3 crops per year. This new hemp is 20% protein and is not recreational. It’s for livestock feed. This is a huge game changer.
"Annex the Rio Grande Valley"? Actually, I think we stole it from Mexico in the first place. Perhaps you meant to say "It sounds like Mexico is ready to reclame the Rio Grande Valley for its territory" (grin)
@@Jay_Dahl 😂 there's always one of you butthurt about Mexico getting their butts kicked by a bunch of farmers and outdoorsman. Texas could shut the supply off from that commie country and they couldn't do anything about it. This weak administration is the only reason they get away with their BS 😂
Remember eating Sugar Cane Fresh in the Fields in lower Mississippi back in the early 60's!!! Miss those days as a kid & Sugar Cane Syrup was the Best ever!!!
Can't believe how far down I had to scroll for this. I bet cannabis will fill in those operations since that bill. That crop doesn't belch black ash everywhere like cane does.
I’m from Sugarland. Politics and Greed has ruined EVERYTHING
I love Sugarland! Katy turned a sugar mill into a cool and hip brewery
Don't forget climate change.
Don't forget the greed of the farmers taking subsidies from the politicians.
@@madinkan u mean the govts weather modification weapons against us? I live in Dubai and saw it first hand.
@@CruiseControlM3no that’s got nothing to do with us. We’re talking deep greed and small circles at the top of the society who make choices that benefit them with little care what happens down the line.
If the government was a business, it’d be out of business
Government that has gotten to big
Operates by the
Rule. If it makes
Capital Tax it
If it still moves regulate it
If it stops
Subsistdis
Govm't has two businesses and both do well. War and taxes !
And we all would be better off.
To quote Obama, "Voting has consequences." Stop voting Democrat is a good start. Then research the rest of those running as representative in your area and hold them accountable for situations like this.
Notice I didn't say "Vote Republican", and I didn't for a reason.
Hawaii has stopped all growing of cane also. No more pineapple other than local production. We are depending too much on foreign supplies.
Hawaii is stolen land, like all of the US.
I moved to Houston in 1988, there used to be sugar cane fields as far as the eye could see. In 2003 Imperial Sugar closed its doors. Now it’s a museum. The cane fields are gone.
They want ppl to eat high fructose corn syrup.....it causes problems with the liver and pancreas.....
That’s the destiny of industrialism. To consume everything.
I remember seeing Imperial Sugar products in Connecticut when I was a kid back in the 50's & 60's. Must have been a huge operation.
I live in Louisiana but for a short time as a kid I grew up in sugar land texas. A lot of peoples parents including my mother worked at that factory. I remember running through the cane fields. Those days like the sugar are long gone. Now it’s just a trendy yuppie area.
@@jibril2473 It's not. The United States sold it's populace out to jews and chinese. We are ruled by criminals that profit off our misery and impoverishment.
WE NEED REAL SUGAR BACK IN OUR PRODUCTS. NOT FAKE GARBAGE.
This is what happens when your government is spineless.
Tell Governor Abbot he has no spine…
@@nevets4190 What would you do if you were in charge?
They are not spineless, they stand against the American people with zero fear.
@@cmleoj go to war
@@tc539 Sounds like the absolute worst possible option available.
Congratulations, you did it. I’m sure a lot of people wondered just how bad your decision would be, but you left them satisfied that there’s no worse option. Stand up and take a bow. 👏
Where are your elected officials why aren't they addressing this issue ?
Cause they are ALL Mexicans
They got payed off.
I suspect all the elected officials are hispanic and serve their heritage above all else.
As Chip Roy, GOP from Texas said..."One thing: I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing-one-that I can go campaign on and say we did. One! - explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.”
@@magaareinbredhillbillies Yeah, at least the Democrats can claim high food prices, high rent prices, high real estate prices, lower wages, 11 million new illegals, etc., a lot accomplished in a short time.
To be fair, the sugar industry already is HEAVILY subsidized in places like Florida
It rains in Florida … Texas has drought and fire 🔥 seasons .
And Mexico.
You're using "to be fair" wrong. People like you are why aliens won't talk to us. When in Rome huh Mr. Burgundy lol
Gotta say letting these places go is the stupidest thing America has ever done.
Same as all of our industry that now makes the rust belt.
We are so stupid as a country, anymore.
Stupid? The water comes from Mexico, under a treaty signed over 50 years ago. Whose country are you talking about and why?
just googled up stupid people piss me off...
@@user-ln7of9gs4s Yeah… do you have a point? Mexico has been breaking that treaty, which hurts Americans and our businesses and our ecosystems. It’s our governments job to see that Mexico follows their agreement, both government’s failed, but they don’t care because they’re not the sugar farmer who suffers the consequences…
@@user-ln7of9gs4sShut up bot
Anyone eating any form of sugar is indeed fully stupid.
Sad times in America. Our weak, incompetent so called leaders are destroying this beautiful country. First manufacturing, then the car industry, now our food production. Makes me sick to think about this country’s future and what it holds for my children and grandchildren. 😔
All by design
Thanks to Joe Biden and democrats for actually bringing manufacturing back to America, vote SMART, vote BLUE!!!
Feeling the same way.
When the government (Federal, State, Local) comes in & says ‘We Are Here To Help You’, they’re lying through their teeth.
Yeah but you don't complain for the multitude of services provided to you by the government. I don't suppose you pave your own roads, do you?
The classic line all the gullible boomers got fooled into believing and everyones still waiting for the wealth to trickle down while inequality remains worse than in the gilded age of the robber barons.
@@TactileCoder its texas.. the roads are privatized in texas
@@user-fm7ot1hj2fplease ask for refund from whomever sold you that snake oil
@@user-fm7ot1hj2f Nope...
We don't have a climate crisis.
We have a water management crisis.
There's a drought on one side of the mountain and a flood on the other.
Pray for rain and then pray it stops.
We can develop a national water system that is on the scale of the freeway system to quickly transfer water anywhere in the country.
Every time a factory closes a town suffers and we become more dependent on foreign goods brought by ships burning oil.
Ships that may not come.
We do have climate crisis that’s why Texas has no water sources accept the RIO grande in the valley all the other water holes dried up excessive use
Don’t blame the government! Y’all vote these people in😂😂
Thanks , hope everyone gets to see this.🇺🇸🤠 native Texan
One day we will grow nothing due to development, pesticides, and lack of pollinators. Farmers worldwide are warning of an imminent collapse of farming.
I chased many a drug smuggler and illegal alien through those Sugarcane fields south of Harlingen, Texas in the 80’s and 90’s. Votes have consequences.
Damn illegals..
Correct, vote SMART, vote BLUE!!!
@@barrydavey7188 blue is why we have YOU! SMH…
Because we have a whimp as a President! And congressman that aren't worth a grain of salt !
Thank you Trumpy Bear! and Bite Me.
@@phylliswhite4154 🤣🤣🤣
It was a problem under Trump. And Bush2. And Bush1.
I hope you’re useful for opening jars…
It’s about a big agenda. The government wants to kill the small farms and take their land.
We saw the EU trying to do the same recently.
What is a president supposed to do? The current administration is already getting heavy push back from tejus when they address steps to stop climate change. So tell us... what is a president supposed to do from your perspective?
America Last, that's why.
Yep exactly !!!
Well, it’s not like Trump did anything to fix this either though. This is a problem that multiple administrations have done little or nothing about.
@@damnjustassignmeoneyou voting Biden again?
Build back better
@@rubenmartinez4346 ABSOLUTLY!!!
Our politicians have failed us.
But,........................ that's what they DO !
I agree with the previous comment.
Government is the problem! When big corporations or “financial groups” get together with government, corruption with kill the industry!
You think the REPUBLICANS are going to eliminate big business ties to government?!🙄
Who’s Government? What are you talking about?
Do you say this after a career of being involved on the local hospital board, or working to elect effective county commissioners, effective city leaders, state leaders? Volunteer work?
Or do you say this because you are parroting the same things the boob tube is squawking about 24/7? Are you thinking and acting, or are you being told what to think? 🧐
@@user-ln7of9gs4s
Right! Corporations are the Government.
@@user-ln7of9gs4sGOP
Our forefathers grabbed their guns for a lot less…..the people of America are spineless..
Texas had had entrenched political leadership from the gun grabbing community for over three decades. And these self righteous sanctimonious shills still do business on the daily with the ‘water thieves’. You have to ask yourself at some point why the people you keep sending to lead state government are the same ones who do business, socialize and intermarry with the supposed ‘bad guys’ on the other side of the border. To an outsider, it might look like you are getting played for the chump.
Noones stopping ya bud, go right ahead.
@@ceconk123 He's often grabbing his "gun" , no one else will...
So sad! When we can not sustain ourselves and our country we will no longer exist!
Calm down. It’s sugarcane. Maybe there’s less water in part because it doesn’t rain so often anymore.
No one is crying for this old boy when he sells farmland to the mall developers. I suspect he will do fine without sugar cane.
Plenty of land available to grow crops that doesn't rely on outside help for water. These people just refuse to go elsewhere. They've gotten accustomed to other people solving their issues.
@@kennethloki7011 Millionaires asking for a handout and complaining about the government in the same breath!
I’m figuring out that when conservatives complain about something they are projecting their own defects on others to shield themselves from scrutiny.
Most sugar comes from sugar beets these days.
@@michael931 And beets are a six month crop versus two years for sugarcane. Sugarcane is a good crop for the Caribbean, RGV, not so much.
Mexico broke the water treaty/ contract many decades ago. So the RGV on the USA side should be able to use all the water they need. Mexico doesn’t have no respect for any treaty that they signed with the USA. So if one of the party broke the treaty, the contract doesn’t exist.
water shortage is due to climate change and the treaty allows more time to deliver water in the event of extraordinary drought.
It’s not even Mexico alone. It’s the upstream dams that are managed by both countries not wanting to release more water down stream due to their own shortage. They have only released 30 percent of the promised water over 5 years. The Rio grande is a river border that is shared so no one country has it all.
@@armandocardona6975thank you for an informed opinion and well reasoned point.
Does water not flow from North to South? Are we not North of Mexico? Is not possession 9/10 of the law? Do I need to spell it out or can you fill in the blanks. We need to take care of our own, especially our farmers.
I knew some idiot was going to blame global warming .
But sugar cane demand 90 % morning water than sorghum and we don't have more than water forms cane sugar
That’s another reason why the price of sugar has doubled!!!
Welcome to gmo everything! This isn’t about water shortage. This is about controlling what we eat!
Look up Aral Sea. It's what the Soviet Union dried up for cotton irrigation.
This is a great video. Not because of the bad news it reports, but because it is reporting things that we are not seeing talked about elsewhere in the media. I live in South Carolina, but I am very interested in knowing that Texas is no longer producing sugar because of a lack of water resources from the Rio Grande when Mexico is not honoring the agreement made, and it is also important to me to know that the current administration is doing absolutely nothing to remedy this situation to the detriment of an entire agricultural industry in Texas. Very informative, and thank you.
1st off, the water flows through Texas 1st. Secondly, our Governor, LT. Governor, and Attorney General know what is happening with TX land, water resources, and waste.
-These are not the first people to be impacted by Texas' land or water impacts, with local municipalities and state representatives doing almost nothing.
We got a letter from our water company at the end of last year stating (this South Texas city) REQUIRED the water company to let us know that they had not checked our water, FOR LEAD....in years. However, the requirement from the city was that the water company test this, by the end of the year. Which allowed them months to address it. Not immediately. Additionally, some of our North Texas Farmers just had high PFAs found throughout their farms, with the source being city waste water whose biosolids had been reused for fertilizer. Only noticed, after many animals died. -How in the world, does a city or state allow this to go on from any operating plant or company ? - Could be funding, lobbying, or lack of oversight.
LOL, the fascists running Texas have made it clear that have no use for the Feds. Until the mouth breathers here start wising up and voting blue we'll get more garbage governance from Abbott and his fellow clowns...
Back in the early 80's in South Tx a farm bordered my elementary school playground, Seguin Elementary. They rotated Carrots and Sugar Cane. We would pull some occasionally and eat it while playing. The school remains but the farm was removed long ago for housing development. I left that school in 1986 and moved with the family to San Diego, California. In 2024 I moved my family back to Texas. Don't be so eager to lose what you have in the name of "progress". I've seen what that becomes and it's called "misery".
This government and this administration seems focused on destroying farmers in this country in the name of "global warming" and it's lead by politicians and activist groups who only know the concrete jungle where stores are full and consumption is plenty.
Developments don't help many things, but fertilizers used in current and old school farming, has not helped humanity as much as you might think. Feel free to read what's happening with our farmers taking biosolids from Tx City wastewater, and creating fertilizers that are ending up being Toxic enough to kill off farm lands. We also just had a local water company tell us they had not checked for lead, in years when utilities are supposed to be regulated by the state. None of which have anything to do with anyone out of Texas.
Another poorly educated republican voter heard from...
If you take the word taxes
Out of Texas
You’re left with nothing 😂
I am not sure just what point you are trying to make. Texas is one of the eight states that has no state income tax. A ninth state, New Hampshire, does not tax earned wages.
@@joemag6032 ah but the outsized sales, property taxes, and special use assessments Texans pay more than make up for it. So they don't charge income tax, big whoop, the tax man is still getting his payday. It would take ostrich levels of self delusion to think otherwise.
Texas is taxes spelled sideways.
California spells it up the backside.
@@joemag6032 Texas also has some of the highest property taxes in the country. Dont get shit twisted.
@@popo_53 If my previous comment was not accurate, please explain.
I understand completely. We lost our last whole American own Corn Plant in our counrty. Family own, and they lived on property in building One. 1899. Not the highest paying in the city, but the treated everyone like family. Job for life. Not anymore. 😢😢😢😢😢
It's not stupidity, it's by design.
Now our sugar just comes from places without the regulations. Absolutely ridiculous..
For your information:
Chihuahua farmers have been blocking the release of water into the Rio Grande. Despite the fact that they are the most benefited by the 1948 treaty.
The Mexican federal government has had to resort to drawing water from other dams in other states to pay the water debt. All that actions have been promoted by the Chihuahua governor to attack the mexican federal goverment. Even these actions are a felony, she is pretty sure her actions are covered by the impunity thanks to the privileges of her charge.
The governor of Chihuahua has caused damage to Mexican and Texan farmers. That is a real crisis with a real person responsible. It is sad that neither President Biden nor Abbot have claimed that the governor of Chihuahua violates an international treaty.
Big sugar has destroyed Florida, as well as my pancreas
This is sad, because once it closes now it usually closed for life. Our leaders as a whole are worthless and do not protect the people.
Vote SMART, vote BLUE!!!
Same thing happened to the steel industry and car industry and even the aluminum industry. One by one they all fall and leave America to set up shop in another country so they can continue with half or a quarter of the operating costs.
I was born in Napoleonville, in South Louisiana, along Bayou Lafourche. (Pronounced La Foosh) My
Grandfather was a Sugarcane Farmer. He started with mules instead of tractors, and when he returned
from "The Great War" (WW1), he worked hard, every day, from before sunup, till after dark. He spoke very little
English, being a Cajun, and his French was an asset in France during the war. I still remember Miles and Miles
and Miles of Sugarcane fields that we kids roamed far and wide. Bayous teeming with fish. Woodlands
crawling with wildlife, and hunting and fishing were a necessity to feed our burgeoning families.
Some of the sugarcane fields are still there, but there are Far fewer of them, and the mills are very few, now.
Modern life has it's advantages, but I sure do miss our Rich and Boundless youth.
Should say Texas' Last Sugar Mill , Imperial Sugar in Sugarland, outside of Houston closed in 2003
@@fljetgator1833 It says it now, previously said 'Texas's Lone Sugar Mill' when I commented
@@scottnunya1 oh..
Didn't see that. I stand corrected 😎
Imperial was a sugar refinery, not a sugar mill. Mills produce raw sugar which is sent to a refinery to become table sugar.
Sugar bad,ICE bad,gas stove bad,cows bad,big Government good.
Poorly educated republican clowns, bad...
This water dispute goes back decades, starting with the US not releasing agreed-to amounts of water into the Rio Grande, and Mexico not feeding the Rio through Mexican tributaries.
They didn’t want to drown the 15 million illegal aliens coming across.
And the US sucking the Colorado River dry before it hits the gulf of Baja.
Bidenomics is working as planned! Great job!
Correct
Maybe you missed the part when he said this is part of an agreement/treaty signed in 1944. Stop blaming decades-old problems on whatever administration is currently in office. Biden blames Trump who blamed Obama who blamed Bush who blamed Clinton who blamed Reagan/Bush who blamed Carter. They’re ALL to blame.
This has nothing to do with Biden.
Did you even listen to this story.
@@randyschultz197 guess you didn't understand the word Bidenomics
@@randyschultz197 Guess you didn't listen, the government wont help with the water, and that's BIDEN.
Most American farmers are honest, hard working, successful folks. MAGA '24
They're mostly just corporations growing "Roundup ready" crops.
Now we can buy from China...... how progressive
wonder what they'll be adding to it...?
The United States government doesn’t want small farmers to continue on. They want the big corporate farmers online.
We saw the same in the EU. They also want your land and once they have it and sell it to the big corporations then they will enforce the water treaties.
Nope. and that did not occur in EU either.
Isn't that what the old Soviet Union did? Collective farms!
@@Look_What_You_Didmust be nice to have an inability to notice things
@@junicohen7918 Must be nice to be poorly informed like you...
I'm glad I'm old enough to remember seeing a mule pulling a cane crusher at a small mill in deep east Texas.
What is the saying? All the gold in the world doesn't feed you when there are no crops grown.
How can this be?? We buy A LOT of sugar for industry needs and HFCS has gone up 400% over the past couple years. How could ANY sugar mill not thrive?
Terrible regulations !! Foreign companies aren’t bound by the same regulations. They have been killing the American companies for years .
Because the cane is thirsty. And historical water levels on the Rio Grande are falling. So farmers on both sides of the border are getting pissy over a shrinking resource.
People used to say, ‘Don’t grow sugar cane in the desert.’ Idiots. It’s not a problem when you have government schemes to bring water to the desert. But now that’s gone.
Maybe we should grow sugar cane in Mobile, which gets 2 1/2 times the rainfall of the RGV, and you don’t need a decade long government effort to bring irrigation to that region.
I live 8 miles from it and the issues are we cannot get any water from mexico to grow our crops..Our president drags his ass and could care less about what mexico does. the sugar mill could not get any water this year at all.and we have had very little rain..all of our crops are going to be way down by over 68% with huge losses. Corn , Milo, Cotton and others are burning up in the fields currently. It is so sad
HFCS uses corn 🌽 not cane.
@@LarrySbruschand now all the rain
Hmmmm....we have a problem with Mexico about water...and not all the illegal immigrants coming across???? Something really wrong with this administration....
NOTHING is being done about either problem.
No energy administration !
Funny, same problems have been going on for decades, vote SMART, vote BLUE!!!
@@barrydavey7188
Tried blue, it didn't work !
How about better water management? We allow too much water to flow back to the Gulf after good rainstorms.
Why did they not switch to sugar beets. They are big where I grew up and don't require irrigating.
Sugar beets are a cold climate crop as seen in the map at the end of this video (Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, etc.). Sugar beets came over with Northern European immigrants in the 1800s. In the early 1900s northern Colorado to Wyoming and Nebraska had the Great Western Sugar mills and factories for vast sugar beet farms all based on irrigation - down to just two working mills. Today more and more farmland is becoming “little enclaves on the prairie” as more people move in. The arid West cannot sustain this current population growth, and certainly will not be able to feed the development boom.
I’ve picked up tons and tons of sugar from the Sugarland plant when I drove a truck. There were 2000lb bags and 50lb bags. Brown sugar white sugar powdered sugar. In the warehouse it smelled sweet from all the sugar dust on everything. When all our farms and manufacturing plants have closed down and the American worker runs out of work. The Government will be happy to own us. Smh.
Overprotection destroys American jobs.
What a pathetic waste of fantastic infrastructure. Look at that plant and buildings - so much material and time invested sits rusting now.
You any idea how many sugar factories have closed in the past 20 years? This is not new. Industry always changes. Get over it, or get in the grave.
It’s time to make a change! If the water starts in the United States , we use what we need ! We need to be careful about how much water we use! Mexico doesn’t care about how much water it uses, or keeping up with the treaty’s that it has agreed to!
We should just divert all the Rio Grand water at El Paso and deny that water to Mexico until they comply down the river.
A large percentage of water comes from mexico, particularly the conchos river in chihuahua. If the mexican government cut the flow from that river, the rio grand would almost completely dry up.
It's sad that nobody is thinking outside of the box about other ways to get and store water.
Since one of the head employee from monsanto heads the FDA and approved the synthetic sugar think about it 😡
That's the best you can come up with?
@@Look_What_You_Didwhat’s your response to that if you think his statement is incorrect
@@faisalghiar First... direct conflict. Monsanto is the global leader in sugar beat seed. So the claim they have this super FDA position to do as they wish... just to complete with existing product? Dumb.
Second. The OP (that has yet to respond in first person) does not cite the individual. I suspect they are referencing somebody from.... 2016. And he was far from heading the FDA. He actually advocated for safety, not corporations.
@@Look_What_You_Did Monsanto tells you glycophate is safe for consumption. Way to be a pathetic shill.
@@Look_What_You_Did another brain washed and retarded
America will put its last nail in their own coffin😂🎉😅
Because a sugar factory closed?
Take a look around, not just sugar😝 America is killing its own people, breaking their backs, their pocketbook, keeping them poor, no manufacturing jobs!
It's the end of the US.
Don't feel bad yaw...They shut down the papper mill that had been here in Taylor Co. Since the 1950's.....Koch Brosnan. Won't say why but I think it had something to do with the massive amounts of water that were pumped out of the Aguafers deep in the woods behind the mill as papper mills require alot of water.
Those 20-250 hp pumps moved 60 million gallons per day.😮
So now Every pine tree is taken to a different pappermill.....seems like a waste of fuel for the Koch Bros but I guess there paying extra.
We had a major hurricane come through and then the pappermill.
Less sugar, more beef. Grass and cows.
I’m a beekeeper and I need up to 1 ton of sugar annually to feed my bees in spring and autumn and yes they double the price in short periods of time. This is a very important. To keep the FARMERS ACTIVE so that the workers can provide for their families. Hopefully this will be addressed soon by the government or department of agriculture.
I’m torn on this issue, although sugar is a terrible product for humans to consume, I feel bad for the farmers for not having their treaty upheld to have access to the water for them to supply people with the products they want. If a group of people have a treaty granting them access to water it doesn’t matter what they’re using the water for, it’s still technically theirs.
Truth
A pinch of sugar every now & then is ok.
I know plenty of Native Americans that would love to discuss that whole treaty thing with you...
Sugar industry has been controversial since the beginning of the plantations .
A couple of searches and you can get a small understanding of the situation.
My property has a creek that ends up in the Rio, it’s not just the river, it’s the dry aquifers as well.
All the old Army corp of engineering swales around me, have been decommissioned and destroyed. Those things did hold back water from the rivers, but the also feed the groundwater.
So many greedy people out there.
This wannabe government has always been the problem
Agreed, vote SMART, vote BLUE!!!
Rice university released a very good report on sugar cane's gradual decline in the fifties, and how labor was impacted when slaves were replaced with convicts. It also notes how Texas did not regain it's strength for sugar production due to low profits and reduced weather output, during and after the war. Ultimately leading to the multitude of cotton crops we see today.
One more thing to add to the list of reasons why we'll be dependent on others instead of Texas independent like we used to be.
Thanks Biden!
As long as they allow their citizens to swim the river we should get as much water as we please.
Oh no.. that’s so sad. Why??? Please Lord, bring back Texas sugar.
I lived in Baytown & while we import illegal aliens we also import products we used to make state side Sheldon, TX champion paper mill as an Iron worker now its a paper recycling plant
There was 1 Federal Congresswoman, Monica Dela Cruz from district 15, that tried to do something about this and even brought this up in the House of Reps not to long ago. I guess that fell upon deaf ears.
The Government needs to go. We need to make America run without help from other countries the best we can. Then we ask for help and work together. How it shouldve been. Chinas growing we're sinking
So sad the governor could not help you to keep going on suppling the suger for us to buy from here .
A farmer will buy 200 acres of land and will NEVER think to build a large pond on their land. 20 acres of land for a pond.
Go ahead and build a pond, then the government will not let you use it. Happen to our family farms in Texas.
Starts with our state! Don’t see why we can’t derive other sources of water!!
Just opened another reservoir up north
Why not build one for the RGV??
Desalination plants??
My grandfather was a sugarcane farmer in Louisiana.
Thanks Kamallah.
im just glad we sent $61B to the Ukraine.
interestingly enough, theyve just set record sales for range rovers and Mercedes there as well. thats weird, huh?
Putin lover...
It's very sad to see this!! i have family in Houston tx and we have been here to see the Christmas lights. This breaks my Heart!!
The problem is that they are using too much water, growing crops that were never meant to grow in that climate.
I'm from Rio grande valley san juan tx man this is where me and my dad used to see the tractors doing work sad to see this happening
I’m not from Texas, I’m from the Carolina’s, but this makes me so sad !! I can’t believe this has happened and apparently no one in a position to step in to get control of it, isn’t doing so. Like so many other things in our country, businesses that have been around a long time, are slowly going away. My thoughts and prayers go out to you all & I’m sorry you basically have to watch it happen and can’t do anything about it. That’s sickening to me and makes me as mad as it does sad. I wish there was another option for you, besides closing down. May God bless each of you.
Times change...
Work there 22 seasons will miss it hopfully it will come back on day
The real problem is corporate farming, my aunt work for a company that grew fruit in Honduras and would have to travel there to inspect.
My friend said that if they would do cloud seeding over there there wouldn't be a problem
The sugar industry in Hawaii was a major economic factor for Hawaii 100+ years with an abundance of sugarcane fields and mills on all four major islands, the sugar industry in Hawaii started to dwindle in the late 80’s through the 90’s and the last sugar mill in the entire state shut down in 2016 the Puunene mill on the island of Maui signifying the end of an era.
Access to fresh water has been a problem for some time now. This is just another example, and it is affecting farmers all over the country.
People have been told for years about water conservation. Industrial pollution along with agriculture runoff has caused so much damage. SMH. Cry me a river why don’t you. Same can be said of poultry farming and hog farming. Clean up your damn mess.
These rich farmers want us to cry. a river for them.😂
New hemp will be grown for feed. No soil degradation,3 crops per year. This new hemp is 20% protein and is not recreational. It’s for livestock feed. This is a huge game changer.
Now people are going back to their regular weight, and normal health, because sugar it has been the powerful killer in humans life
Are you sure? All of the food processors are using HFCS.
It sounds like Mexico is ready to annex the Rio Grande Valley for its territory.
Joe Biden would let them with no push back.
@@greglane3978he would give it to those commies on a silver platter
They already have moved a majority populace in.
"Annex the Rio Grande Valley"? Actually, I think we stole it from Mexico in the first place. Perhaps you meant to say "It sounds like Mexico is ready to reclame the Rio Grande Valley for its territory" (grin)
@@Jay_Dahl 😂 there's always one of you butthurt about Mexico getting their butts kicked by a bunch of farmers and outdoorsman. Texas could shut the supply off from that commie country and they couldn't do anything about it. This weak administration is the only reason they get away with their BS 😂
Remember eating Sugar Cane Fresh in the Fields in lower Mississippi back in the early 60's!!! Miss those days as a kid & Sugar Cane Syrup was the Best ever!!!
Notice he said they only grow sesame and soy now….so healthy
I don’t think anyone stopping you from eating lettuce.
It's called high treason
Get that crap outa my food anyway
You realize they will replace it with high fructose corn syrup?..... much more damaging to the body......
Can't believe how far down I had to scroll for this. I bet cannabis will fill in those operations since that bill.
That crop doesn't belch black ash everywhere like cane does.
Thanks! Greg Hot Wheels
My uncle lives near this place I remember going to his house and seeing all the sugar canes j in n the field. Sad to see them go
It's too bad this is happening. But, sugar is the worst thing you can put in your body. It would great to turn this into something else to produce
EVIL has ruined everything.