No apologies to me, I'm learning things.

The county I originally come from is famous for sorghum molasses, even though I don't think anyone is making it there anymore on a large scale. I helped make it one summer. We strip the sorghum cane with wooden paddles.and cut the cane at the base, then run the cane through a mill to squeeze out the juice. The mill feeds a gravity pipeline downhill to a shop were we heated it into molasses and canned it in large tins with lids similar to paint cans. It is then labeled and sold. I know of one Mennonite gentleman who still peddles it from his horse buggy in jars almost daily on the side of the road.

Is the agave that you are speaking of the plant which you can obtain a needle and thread from? Break the needle, and pull a long strip of fiber connected to it from the plant and then you have an instant needle and thread?