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ASCL: $10 million for USDA’s Sugarcane Research Unit in Schriever

March 14, 2022
Sam Irwin
ASCL Press Release

USDA Researchers use this grow house located in Schriever, La. to crossbreed sugarcane varieties. 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...

LSU AgCenter graduate students awarded fellowships

March 11, 2022
Sam Irwin
American Society of Sugarcane Technologists (ASSCT), ASCL Press Release

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 and interim dean of the...

Louisiana sugar producers want strong sugar policy in farm bill

March 3, 2022
Sam Irwin
American Sugar Alliance Press Release, ASCL Press Release

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 supporting America’s sugar farmers, producers,...

League elects Randy Romero as president

February 10, 2022
Sam Irwin
ASCL Press Release

League manager Jim Simon, Dr. Kenneth Gravois, League president Randy Romero 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...

National farm policy experts to address Louisiana sugarcane group

January 31, 2022
Sam Irwin
ASCL Press Release

Robert Johansson and Allison Crittenden, two nationally recognized experts on American sugar policy and farm bill issues, will address the February 8 meeting of the American Sugar Cane League at L’Auberge Casino and Hotel in Baton Rouge. The League meeting is in conjunction with the...

Predicting the sugarcane harvest – no easy task

Hurricane Ida downed cane in Iberville Parish but hit harder in the southeastern part of Louisiana's cane belt. Despite the downed cane, today's modern harvesters can harvest cane that is blown over. The sugarcane crop is ready to harvest, and Louisiana’s 11 sugar mills are...

Find the blue and white to save your life

Railroad crossing safety is always an important matter and Union Pacific Railroad is saying “Find the blue and white to save your life” in a series of English and Spanish language public service announcements. The American Sugar Cane League will work with Union Pacific to...

Hurricane Ida

September 1, 2021
Sam Irwin
ASCL Press Release

A sugarcane field near Rosedale, La. after Hurricane Ida. Rosedale was not in the direct path of Ida. The eastern part of the Louisiana sugarcane industry was hit by Hurricane Ida on August 30. The immediate need of the American Sugar Cane League has been...

Waguespack, Gravois, Falgoust honored by St. James sugarcane industry

The St. James Agricultural Tour committee named Herman Waguespack Jr of Thibodaux as the 59th recipient of the Kermit Coulon Sr. Outstanding Service Award. Waguespack is the research director of the American Sugar Cane League and has served the Louisiana sugarcane industry for more than...

Assumption Parish holds 51st cane field day

American Sugar Cane League agronomist Wilson Judice discusses row top fertilizing. The LSU AgCenter hosted the Assumption Parish Sugarcane Field Day in Napoleonville yesterday. It was the 51st time local farmers, researchers and others connected to the Louisiana sugarcane industry have gathered to learn about...

Pointe Coupee hosts its first sugarcane field day

Joby Beaud and Mark Carriere in front of a seedcane plot of new sugarcane variety HoCp 14-885. In yet another sign that our society is inching back to a pre-pandemic “normal,” the LSU AgCenter hosted a sugarcane field day in Pointe Coupee Parish the first...

League congratulates new Louisiana congressional members

April 29, 2021
Sam Irwin
ASCL Press Release

The American Sugar Cane League congratulated Julia Letlow and Troy Carter on their election to the United States Congress. Letlow won the March 20 special election of Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District. Carter won the April 24 runoff for the 6th Congressional District. Letlow, who will...

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