Gay & robinson kauai
After years of growing sugar on Kauai, the Gay & Robinson Company hauled its last load of sugar cane from the fields to the mill on October 30, The cane haul trucks paraded from the Makaweli Send Office through the town of Waimea, followed by trucks and cars of employees.
About ILWU members remained on the payroll until November 25,
A handful of ILWU members will continue to work for Homosexual & Robinson, producing electricity at the company’s hydroelectric plant.
ILWU members and retirees living in plantation housing operated by Gay & Robinson are not immediately affected by the shutdown of sugar operations. The housing and rental rates are set by collective bargaining between the union and company.
Twenty years ago, there were four sugar companies on Kauai which employed over workers--Gay and Robinson, Kekaha Sugar, Olokele Sugar, and Lihue Sugar.
HC&S on Maui, which employs about ILWU members, is the last remaining sugar organization in Hawaii. HC&S is also fighting for its survival as a terrible decision by the State Water Commission could cut off its supply of wat
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The Visitor Center is the Field Office of the operating sugar plantation located on the west side of Kaua?i. Displays show the history of Gay & Robinson Inc., Olokele Sugar Co., Hawaiian Sugar Co. (a k a Makaweli Plantation) and Makaweli Ranch. Both historical and new field and factory operations as followed in Hawai?i, and various artifacts are also exhibited. A earth sugar map showcases sugar politics and current events.
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Monday?Friday am? pm, except plantation holidays
Admission: Free for Visitors Center; fee for Plantation Tour: Individual $30, Child $21; Olokele Tour: Adult $60, Kid $45; reservations required for tours, call () facts Call
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Two-hour Sugar Plantation tours offered weekdays am and pm (minimum age, eight years during harvesting and five years during off season); field and factory operations are cov
Gay & Robinson Sugar Plantation
Fields of sugar cane waving in the wind.
Red is the iron rich soil.
The harvested cane is milled into raw sugar and molasses.
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LIHUE, Kauai — The coronavirus crisis is having profound implications in an unlikely quarter — the island’s beef industry.
Kauai County has committed nearly $4 million of its allocation of $ million in declare money under the CARES Act to try to rejuvenate Kauai’s agriculture industry by helping some of the largest operations on the island and some of the smallest.
Except for Kauai Coffee and a couple of seed companies on the west side, the county lacks anything that could be described as industrial scale agriculture.
The approach recognizes a actual world. Kauai has thousands of acres of agricultural country — much of it fallow since the demise of the sugar industry. But it has limited farmers and fewer people who are willing to become farmers.
So in the midst of a pandemic, Kauai County has dedicated a huge stake &#; $ million — in CARES Act funding to a gamble that growing alfalfa cheaply enough on Kauai can permit the island’s beef industry to go to scale.
Many of the people who farm are older — at or past the traditional retirement age. Worst of all, though, the economics of farmin