“Cane Families Care” sign campaign underway “Cane Families Care” is the theme of a new sugarcane industry initiative aimed at promoting driver safety within the agricultural sector and the motoring public, said Frankie Sotile, a sugarcane farmer from…
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Sugarcane educational packet available for schools
How is sugarcane, Louisiana’s number one row crop, turned into the sugar that’s in your sugar bowl? The answer is explained in “From Louisiana’s Sugar Belt to Your Table,” a new, full color, 16-page educational brochure designed for students of all ages. The…
U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Mexican Sugar Subsidies Distort Trade
On behalf of the American Sugar Alliance (ASA), the Louisiana-based American Sugar Cane League forwards this statement from the ASA regarding today’s Dept. of Commerce findings on Mexican sugar subsidies. Dept. of Commerce: Mexican Sugar Subsidies Distort Trade…
ASCL Senior Agronomist Windell Jackson retires
Windell Jackson, the American Sugar Cane League’s (ASCL) senior agronomist, retired at the end of June after 41 years of working with sugarcane farmers and studying the sugarcane plant. His steadfast dedication to the sugarcane industry is one of the reasons the sugar…
ITC Ruling
ITC: Dumped Mexican Sugar Harming U.S. Farmers, Taxpayers WASHINGTON – American businesses and taxpayers have been harmed by the unfair trading practices of Mexico’s sugar industry, which has dumped subsidized sugar onto the U.S. market, according…
Sugarcane is for sugarcane
Sugarcane is for sugarcane In 1922, Louisiana’s sugarcane growers and millers were faced with a difficult decision: change or die. Faced with disease and decreasing sugar yields, the sugar industry consolidated three groups, the Louisiana Sugar Planters…