The entire sugar cane industry in the valley closed down this year. The growers couldn’t get enough water commitments, so they couldn’t afford to plant, which made it unprofitable for the Sugar House processing plant to stay open, so it shut down. Now that the processing plant is down, there’s no point in planting cane even if more water does become available. There is no place to process the product! No more black clouds on the horizon from cane fields burning prior to harvesting. No more black snow at our house from drifting ash put out by the burning fields. The end of an era.