With grinding a few weeks underway, early indicators are that local sugar-cane farmers will have a good season. Herman Waguespack, senior agronomist for the Thibodaux-based American Sugar Cane League, said most growers heβs talked to have had a positive season so far….
Just as the sugarcane harvest is set to end, Acadiana gets hit with a hard freeze However, farmers in St. Martin and Iberia Parish say because the freeze came late in the season, there is a good chance it wont do much damage. “With the current conditions we…
Travis Medine has been farming sugarcane for 14 years in Port Allen, Louisiana, outside of Baton Rouge. PHOTO: Travis Medine directs a tractor driver during the 2015 planting season. Photo by ASCL-SamIrwin. Harvest time is always an adventure with Louisiana’s…
The 217-year-old Louisiana sugarcane industry continues to bring thousands of jobs and billion of dollars into the state. That’s why the Teche Growers Association wants to preserve sugarcane’s rich history. WATCH THE KLFY-TV NEWS STORY
Over the past two years, Congress has held numerous hearings that have documented a brewing financial crisis caused by falling commodity prices, high input costs, and tightening farm credit. Members have heard from farmers and ranchers across the country about the…
ST. GABRIEL β In a sense, two new sugar cane varieties announced at a public gathering this week were more than a century years in the making. The crossbred cane, developed at LSU’s sugar research station in St. Gabriel and the U.S. Department of…
Reporter Bryn Stole of The Advocate’s Washington D.C.desk filed this story on guest laborers who are only needed seasonally. Photo: Local laborers are difficult to find for seasonal labor in sugarcane, seafood processing and landscaping industries. Sugarcane…
Catherine LaCour of Pointe Coupee Parish and Joel Gasper of Crookston, Minnesota farm with their families. Here’s the editorial they penned that ran in the Washington Examiner March 6, 2018 about what it’s like to be a sugar farmer today. Their message?…
Judging by the first 10 to 15 percent of sugar cane that has made its way to the sugar mills this season, things are looking good for the fall harvest. DAILY IBERIAN NEWS STORY BY DANNY FENSTER Photo: Raw sugar loaded into a Bayou Teche barge from Cajun Sugar Mill…