The Bryant Sugar Mill was operated by U.S. Sugar, and closed in 2007. This was one of two mills operated by U.S. Sugar in the agricultural lands south of Lake Okeechobee, known as the Everglades Agricultural Area, a region that became, and is still, the largest source of cane sugar in the USA, dominated by U.S. Sugar and its rival, the Florida Crystals company. U.S. Sugar’s main plant and headquarters is in Clewiston, on the southwest shore of Lake Okeechobee.