Alma Sugarcane Mill, Lakeland, La.
The Alma Sugarcane Mill in action during the 2023 Louisiana sugarcane harvest. The mill makes raw sugar from sugarcane juice.
You've found Sugarcane in the News, the home of the official American Sugar Cane League press releases and other news stories about the sugar industry. In this section you will find links to the Sugar News, our email newsletter about the the people who have made sugarcane the Louisiana's number one crop for more than two centuries. You can sign up to receive the Sugar News in your mailbox here.
There's also a link to The Sugar Bulletin, the League's monthly magazine, and its advertising rates and subscrption information. The Sugar Bulletin has been published since 1922 and you can research the sugar industry archives by clicking here or in the drop list to the left. The American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists archives are also available.
Check back frequently to stay up to date on breaking news, legislative issues and other important information about the sugar industry.
Sugar Industry Celebrates Through Giving this National Real Sugar Day
On Saturday, October 14, the American Sugar Cane League alongside the collective national sugar industry will celebrate the people and the plants that make real sugar possible on the second annual National Real Sugar Day. Last year, the American Sugar…
Railroad crossing safety
With the 2023 Louisiana sugarcane harvest in full swing, sugarcane producers should advise their drivers of proper railroad crossing safety. Railroad crossing safety is always an important matter and Union Pacific Railroad is saying "Call before you haul" and “Find…
Plenty of sugar available for upcoming holidays
Louisiana’s sugarcane farmers and millers found it hard to take national political commentator George Will’s “Sugar protectionism may sour holidays” column seriously. Will recently published his “sour holidays” in the Washington Post, Baton Rouge Advocate and other major newspapers. In…
Burn Ban Includes Agricultural Burning
As these horrid drought conditions persist, the state has issued a total burn ban and suspended the law that allows for agricultural field burning. Prescribed burn protocols do not allow field burning under these conditions. In prior burn bans agricultural…
Simon honored with Coulon Service Award at St. James banquet
James “Jim” Simon of New Iberia was honored as the recipient of the Kermit Coulon Sr. Outstanding Service Award at the 62nd St. James Appreciation Supper held in Vacherie at the Westbank Reception Hall July 27. Leonard “Lenny” Waguespack, committee…
Assumption Parish Sugarcane Field Day 2023
The 2023 Assumption Parish Sugarcane Field Day was hosted by the LSU AgCenter in Napoleonville on July 11. Enaux A. Rivere Jr. was the recipient of the U.B Simoneaux Distinguished Service Award while Brett Thibodaux was named the "Outstanding Young…
New Dept. of Labor wage rules not good for agriculture
By now most Louisiana farmers know that the United States Department of Labor (DOL) has implemented a change in the way that wages are set for the H-2A guest worker program. It means an unprecedented wage increase for certain groups…
Louisiana Sugarcane Producer Urges Members of Congress to Support American Farmers and Workers for Food Security
Patrick Frischhertz, a sugarcane grower from Plaquemine, Louisiana testified before the House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit on Wednesday, April 26. Speaking on behalf of the American Sugar Alliance, Frischhertz called on lawmakers to maintain “an…
Priority for the American Sugar Cane League
Over the past ten years, sugarcane acreage has rapidly expanded, especially in Vermillion Parish in the western cane belt and Pointe Coupee, Avoyelles and Rapides in the north. Pointe Coupee now has more than 70,000 acres in production, when just…
Louisiana is the top sugarcane state for 2022
American Sugar Cane League director Jim Simon reported that the Louisiana sugarcane industry produced more than two million tons of raw sugar in 2022 for the first time ever and is now the number one cane sugar-producing state in the…
Sugarcane harvest underway
The 2022-23 Louisiana sugarcane harvest is in full swing now and most everyone in the industry is feeling optimistic for a good harvest. Sugarcane acreage increased again this year. In 2021, 469,000 acres were harvested but this season about 475,000…
