Editing Crockett, California (section)

===Economic adaptation===
By the 1960s, the good times were largely over for C & H and Crockett. Revenues and profits began dropping, so that the company pumped less money into the community. There were many layoffs as the company tried to restore profitability. In 1984, the company proposed building a natural  gas-powered cogeneration plant that would provide steam for the sugar refinery and low-cost electricity for Crockett. A protest group calling itself the Crockett Power Plant Committee, supported by many Crockett residents, was formed and spent the next nine years opposing the proposal.<ref name="Hayes"/>  The proposed power plant was eventually built, but only after the company agreed to make major changes. C & H agreed to give Crockett $300,000 per year for the ensuing 30 years, which mostly funds its police and volunteer fire fighting departments.<ref name="Hayes"/>

The Hawaiian sugar farmers sold their holdings in 1993 to Hawaii-based Alexander & Baldwin, which converted C & H from a co-op into a corporation. In 1998, A & B sold a controlling interest to Citicorp Venture Capital (CVC). American Sugar Refining bought C & H in 2006, merging it with its other sugar operations. Revenues and profits continued their decline into the 21st century, until the Crockett plant processed its last shipment of Hawaiian sugar in 2017.<ref name="Ioffee"/>{{efn|The last sugar mill on Maui closed in December 2016. Its final product, {{convert|30000|lb|tonne}} was delivered to Crockett aboard the ship ''Moku Pahu'' on January 17, 2017.<ref name="Ioffee">[http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/19/crockett-last-hawaiian-sugar-ship-bids-historic-farewell/ Ioffee, Karina. "Last Hawaiian sugar ship bids historic farewell." ''East Bay Times''. January 20, 2017.] Accessed July 16, 2017</ref>}}

Raw sugar now arrives from the globe's sun belt: Australia, the Philippines and Nicaragua, among other countries.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/the-c-h-sign.html|title = The C & H Sign|newspaper = The New York Times|date = September 18, 2011|last1 = Rafkin|first1 = Louise}}</ref>