Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season.

Flames crackle as fire engulfs a sugar cane field. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo “It goes all on its own,” said Harvesting Manager Mark Lopes last week as he surveyed the fire at field 703.

At 4 a.m. Thursday in a field below Omaopio on Maui, the first official cane fire of the 144th Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. harvest roared to life. Nathan Carrillo slowly drove along the ...

The kick-off meeting, held on campus this past week, marked the start of a research project to develop technology-based solutions for streamlining sugar cane harvesting procedures. SCGC is funding the ...

where are they getting the cane?” He posed. “There is serious carpet harvesting of sugarcane at the moment where no canes are being left regardless of the age. Factories are likely to close ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: “The Last Harvest” is a series chronicling the ... KAHULUI — The sun-baked, wind-blown sugar cane that Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. burns, harvests and mills arrives ...