bill crawford

Wow! Thanks so much for your response. This will help get us on the right path quickly.

Currently, we sell our sugarcane juice at farmer's markets locally. We have a lot of orders for it from retail stores, and we are ramping up our production to meet these orders. We have a pasteurized product that is very good tasting. Hopefully we will be on store shelves in october.

If you would like a sample bottle or two, just let me know and I will send you one. Gratis! For all your help.

That goes for anyone else who reads this post. We want to get the word out to folks who are familiar with cane.

The toughest problem we are having now is finding a high-speed peeler. The cane juice taste much better if the cane is peeled before squeezing. We have purchased a couple of peelers so far, but they have not been very good.

Here's a toast to cane juice!!

I found this exchange very interesting and hope I can pick it up again.

I run a company Rio Hondo Cane. We make sugarcane juice in South Texas. We sell the juice, we don't process it into sugar or molasses.

In making the juice, we make a LOT of bagasse. We are currently chopping the bagasse and trying to make mulch and/or compost out of it.

We are going to mix the bagasse with organic chicken manure for compost.

Druce Batstone seemed to have a lot of experience with this. We are also considering peletizing the compost to make for easier field application.

Any further tips on making mulch/compost with bagasse would be great. Has anyone tried making a feed with bagasse?

Thanks