Grade Crossing Safety Tips
Trains always have the right of way over vehicles. Look for the blue and white emergency notification sign and call the number provided for help.
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.
Trains always have the right of way over vehicles. Look for the blue and white emergency notification sign and call the number provided for help.
The American Sugarcane League and its partner, the Sugar Association (SAI) celebrate October 14, 2022 as the first annual National Real Sugar Day. It’s the day to celebrate real sugar with your sugar producing neighbors in Louisiana as well as…
The American Sugar Cane League gave a $2,500 grant to the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville to help defray the cost of a protective shed over the vintage 1965 “Julien” sugarcane planter exhibit at the museum. The planter…
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN SUGARCANE PRODUCTION FIELD DAY September 20, 2022 Sugarcane Model Farm Dugas Farm Inc., Napoleonville, LA
I heard food futurist Jack Bobo speak at the 37th annual International Sugar Symposium in Vail, Colorado in early August. The definition of a food futurist is not someone who predicts the future of our food systems but one who…
The United States wants to be a leader in clean energy and energy providers are looking at alternate ways to deliver power to their customers. Instead of drilling in the ground searching for oil, the energy industry is taking a…
Click here for Seedcane Application for Varieties HoL 15-508 and L 15-306 Deadline to Submit: August 1, 2022 Price: $60 per ton ($59 paid to the Secondary Station Operator, $1 to ASCL for administrative cost)
As July rolls around, Louisiana’s sugarcane “grand growth stage” is well underway. In tropical regions, the grand growth stage can last for five to eight months, but Louisiana’s sugar producers don’t have the luxury of a long growing season. We…
Randy Romero, president of the American Sugar Cane League, said the $10 million in federal funding U.S. Congressman Garret Graves secured for the government’s Sugarcane Research Unit in Schriever will go a long way to finish building out the rural…
Seven LSU AgCenter graduate students received fellowships funded by the Louisiana Division of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists at the February 2022 joint meeting of the ASSCT and American Sugar Cane League. Dr. Luke Laborde, interim vice president…
Louisiana’s sugarcane growers and millers cast their eyes towards Washington D.C. as Dr. Rob Johansson, Director of Economics and Policy Analysis at the American Sugar Alliance (ASA), testified before the House Committee on Agriculture March 1 on the importance of…
The American Sugar Cane League, founded in 1922 by a group of Louisiana cane producers and millers, celebrated the beginning of its 100th year of service to the cane industry on February 8 at its annual meeting at L’Auberge Hotel…