TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida will pay $2.4 million to a sugar grower as part of an effort to clean and shift water south from Lake Okeechobee through the Everglades.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet --- Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, Agriculture Commission x cer Nikki Fried and Attorney General Ashley Moody --- agreed Tuesday to pay $1,940 an acre to New Hope Sugar Co., a subsidiary of Florida Crystals, to terminate a 1,234-acre lease of state-owned land...