PandaBear
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Maybe not starch, but sugar cane is ridiculously efficient. Takes almost no fertilizer. It literally grows like a weed. I know they don't grow it commercially in Hawaii any more, but I saw it just growing feral. Still - Brazil probably has a better climate for sugar cane than even Louisiana or Florida
Sugar cane is a tropical crop, you cannot grow them in MidWest.
The import sugar ban was not to protect Hawaiian growers (that's likely propaganda) but rather the corn farmers in swing states and their HFCS demand. I don't think people are buying that protection anymore and people who wants to pay more will get the real sugar they want, they are not that expensive compare to the marketing cost when you are selling exotic junk foods.