This undated US Sugar Corporation handout image recieved June 25, 2008 shows sugar cane at a research facility in Florida. Florida has reached a tentative 1.75-billion-dollar deal to buy the largest US sugar producer and turn its vast swaths of farmland into reservoirs to protect the fabled Everglades wetlands, US media reported June 25. "The plan, described by Governor Charlie Crist as the largest conservation purchase in Florida's history, envisions restoring some of the natural flow of water to the Everglades from Lake Okeechobee," The Washington Post reported. The amount of land involved is some 187,000 acres (75,678 hectares). AFP PHOTO/HO/US SUGAR CORPORATION = = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE = = GETTY OUT = =