The Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative sugar house, one of the largest raw sugar mills and one of a few operating in the Everglades Agricultural Area, was built in 1962 by the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative, a group of a few dozen farmers who collectively produce cane from around 70,000 acres in the region. It produces around 500 million pounds of raw sugar a year, which is sold to the American Sugar Refining Company to be turned into white table sugar, elsewhere. The association co-owns the American Sugar Refining Company with Florida Crystals, the largest cane sugar producer in the country, which has two mills in the area. The American Sugar Refining Company dominates the table sugar market, and owns Domino, C&H, and other brands.