SANTA ROSA, Texas (Border Report) — A group of investors is trying to reopen a sugar mill that closed due to drought and lack of water payments from Mexico. The sugar mill in Santa Rosa — the only one ...

SANTA ROSA, Texas (Border Report) — Miles of what once were thriving sugar cane fields in this rural part of South Texas are now just dirt due to the lack of water from Mexico on which growers here ...

Historians believe that Spanish missionaries built the first sugar mill in Texas in the 1780s at Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, in present-day San Antonio. Four decades later, Stephen F.

Texas’ last known sugar mill is shutting down because of dwindling water for irrigation amid continuing supply disputes with Mexico, the company that operates it said. Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers ...

The Texas Farm Bureau said the Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers mill no longer had adequate water to sustain operations, an issue the bureau blames on ongoing water issues with Mexico under the 1944 ...