WAFB-TV reporter Cheryl Mercedes report from St. James Parish that the Sunshine Bridge closure will have an effect on the sugarcane industry. WATCH THE REPORT.
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This Week in Louisiana Agriculture: Planting Sugarcane
Reporter Karl Wiggers of This Week in Louisiana Agriculture filed this great story on sugarcane planting season.
Growing demand for guest workers has landscape, seafood and sugarcane concerned
Reporter Bryn Stole of The Advocate’s Washington D.C.desk filed this story on guest laborers who are only needed seasonally. Photo: Local laborers are difficult to find for seasonal labor in sugarcane, seafood processing and landscaping industries. Sugarcane…
Photo Gallery from 2018 Iberia, St. Mary Vermilion Sugar Field Days
The 2018 Iberia, St. Mary Vermilion LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Field Day. SEE THE PHOTOS
Cover crops featured at sugarcane field day
(07/27/18) JEANERETTE, La. — An LSU AgCenter field day for Iberia, St. Mary and Vermilion parish sugarcane farmers on July 26 placed an emphasis on methods of improving soil health. Story by Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter Rogers Leonard, LSU AgCenter associate vice…
Sugarcane crop doing well
(07/25/18) ST. MARTINVILLE, La. — With planting just around the corner, sugarcane farmers gathered on July 20 at the LSU AgCenter St. Martin Parish sugarcane field day to hear about research and new technology to help with their crop. AgCenter sugarcane specialist…