Florida Sugar Farmers Showcase Successful Everglades Restoration

Florida sugar farmers invite viewers to visit their farms through a new, short video that showcases their successful efforts to help restore the Everglades.

Florida Crystals, U.S. Sugar Corp. and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida have combined in an outreach program to educate viewers about their more than 20-year role collaborating with the state in successful restoration efforts and to celebrate the landmark state legislation that will complete the final phase of Everglades restoration.

For more than two decades, Florida sugar farmers have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to implement advanced farming methods, called Best Management Practices (BMPs). The new vignette shows how farmers have rolled up their sleeves using science, technology and innovative research to preserve the Everglades ecosystem.

To view it and share it online, please visit http://youtu.be/NG3s1Fg36iA

A transcription of the video is here:

It's beautiful when science and nature work together.

And it's happening with Everglades restoration.

Sugar farmers have invested in some of the most advanced environmental research being done anywhere.

Using smart farming methods to preserve Florida's precious resources.

It's working.

Now, environmentalists have joined with sugar farmers and policymakers to put the final phase of restoration in place.

Florida sugar farmers. Part of the solution.