It was a sad day when Hawaii’s sugarcane industry closed up shop last year. Why did Hawaii go out of business? For many reasons but low prices had a lot to do with it. Here is a video report on the United States sugarcane industry from Iowa Public…
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The issue with a visa cap
Louisiana’s sugarcane industry is unique. It produces a top flight sugar harvest that is the envy of the world but if the the state’s mills cannot get the guest workers it needs to make raw sugar from cane juice our 221-year-old industry may be in…
Weather is weather
Folks who are prone to quoting old adages like “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” often incorrectly attribute the famous saying to Mark Twain, but it was Twain’s contemporary, writer Charles Dudley Warner, who coined the…
Louisiana sugarcane farmers support “zero-for-zero” policy
Gary Gravois, 51, a third-generation sugarcane farmer in Louisiana’s Assumption Parish, cultivates nearly 2100-acres along with his older brother, Laurent. They are efficient family farmers and believe they can compete with any cane farmer in the world….
Louisiana sugarcane farmer addresses National Farm Bill Summit
A fifth-generation Louisiana sugarcane farmer and the president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association were among the speakers invited to address legislators, Administration officials, and reporters about the upcoming Farm Bill debate at the Farm Bill Summit in…
Sugarcane farmers head back to school for LSU AgCenter program
Twenty-six farmers and others who work in the Louisiana sugar industry have begun a six-month program that will help them learn about important scientific and economic topics. The LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Production School held its first session on March 16 and 17 on…