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TheSugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida dates began in the 1950s when 16 farmers met to discuss joining together with other farmers in the Glades Area, west of West Palm Beach, Florida, and southeast of Lake Okeechobee, to form a farming cooperative. In July 1960, 54 farmer-members chartered Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida.
In 1921 the Florida legislature established an agricultural research station at Belle Glade to study methods of growing crops on reclaimed Everglades land. At that time, there were already 16 settlements on and around Lake Okeechobee, inhabited by around 2,000 people.
Ruth Wedgworth (March 10, 1903 – December 9, 1995), a native of Eaton Rapids, Michigan, and long time resident of Belle Glade, FL, was a pioneer in Florida agriculture.. She was inducted into the Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1988, was Florida Woman of the Year in Agriculture in 1986, a founding member of the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, and charter member of the Sugar ...
He was born in Starkville, MS and moved to Belle Glade, FL when he was two years old where his father, Herman Wedgworth was a plant pathologist for the University of Florida. He earned a degree in agricultural engineering at Michigan State University where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. In the 1950s, George founded the Florida ...
The 2023 Ford Explorer carrying 10 people was traveling south on Hatton Highway near the farming community of Belle Glade at about 7:30 p.m. Monday when it came to a part of the two-lane road that ...
From 1959 to 1962 the region went from two sugar mills to six, one of which in Belle Glade set several world records for sugar production. [91] Fields in the EAA are typically 40 acres (16 ha), on two sides bordered by canals that are connected to larger ones by which water is pumped in or out depending on the needs of the crops.
Belle Glade is about an hour west of West Palm Beach by car – a little over 40 miles away. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Florida car crash in a canal leaves one survivor ...
The Lawrence E. Will Museum, governed by the Glades Historical Society, is a museum of local history located in Belle Glade, Florida.. The Museum of the Glades represents the total Glades experience with an archive collection that dates back to the early Belle Glade people present thousands of years ago, the Seminoles, early pioneer settlements, agricultural tools and innovations, the early ...