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 ten years ago parish acreage was only 43,000. That’s a 62 percent increase. What are the factors behind this…

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 acres are expected to go to the state’s 11 sugar mills. This is the fifth straight year that cane…

National Real Sugar Day is October 14, and the Louisiana sugar industry invites you to celebrate real sugar. Sugar has been an important economic driver in Louisiana for many years, and as modern planting and harvesting techniques revolutionized the industry in the mid-1990s, we’re growing more sugarcane than ever before. Louisiana is where the American sugar industry began but…

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 can understand what the “preferred” future could looks like and helps existing systems adapt and adjust to that preferred…

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)