Two nationally recognized sugar leaders will be the featured speakers at the annual meeting of the American Sugar Cane League on February 4 at L’Auberge Hotel and Casino in Baton Rouge. Courtney Gaine, president of the Sugar Association and economist Jack Roney…
Windell Jackson, a retired agronomist with the American Sugar Cane League (ASCL), has died. Windell retired in 2014 as the senior agronomist with the ASCL after 41 years of service. He was first mentioned in the Sugar Bulletin on May 15, 1973 as an assistant…
“The growers got together then and decided they wanted to control their own fate and destiny, so they invested and built their own sugar mill,” said St. Mary Sugar mill general manager David Thibodeaux. It just goes to show, when farmers put their mind to…
Folks who are prone to quoting old adages like “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” often incorrectly attribute the famous saying to Mark Twain, but it was Twain’s contemporary, writer Charles Dudley Warner, who coined the…
The American Crystal Sugar Company donated $5,000 to the Kiwanis Club of New Iberia Foundation to benefit Louisiana flood recovery efforts, said Jim Simon, manager of the Louisiana-based American Sugar Cane League. American Crystal, located in the Red River Valley of…
Louisiana’s sugarcane farmers have until September 30 to make crop insurance purchasing decisions for the 2017 crop under a new insurance program that allows for better disaster and other crop loss coverage than previously available for sugarcane. Jim Simon, manager…
Jim Wiesemeyer, senior vice president with Informa Economics, delivered Connecting the Dots:Agriculture and Politics, Washington and Global Issues, at the 93rd annual meeting of the American Sugar Cane League in Lafayette, La. A .pdf of his presentation is available…