We also had some tough questions for Lucilo Teck. He's the senior cane farmers who took the Sugar Industry Control Board to the Supreme Court - to ask for an order of mandamus - which would compel them to declare the season open. That effort backfired and ended up costing the farmers another two weeks before the season could start in earnest - when they ended up signing the very same agreement. And what's more by then the venerable cane farmers association had splintered. Here's what we asked him:..
Lucilo Teck, cane farmer
"That was the plan of BSI to divide us from the beginning."
Jules Vasquez
"In deed the association is divided. But how much of responsibility for that rest with you, if you all hadn't run to challenge the resolution, then BSCFA would have signed as one hundred percent. But now it's broken up."
Lucilo Teck, cane farmer
"That is not the case. The case is from 2010, Willie Magaña stood with the government and they won, so that's nothing new and you know that."
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