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.
Assumption Parish Farm Bureau and its sugarcane farmers would like to remind everyone that harvest season will be starting soon. Both sugar mills (Lula Sugar Factory, Belle Rose and Westfield Sugar Factory, Paincourtville) in our parish expect to open the week of September 26. The crop in the field looks promising so it seems like it will be a…
Few people know both sugarcane and sugarbeets as well as Charley Richard (pronounced Ree-shard) of New Orleans, Louisiana, who works in both the beet and cane side of the American sugar industry. Roughly half of sugar grown in the United States comes from sugarbeets and the other half comes from sugarcane. Sugar, or sucrose, is a carbohydrate that occurs…
Baton Rouge Advocate reporter Ellyn Couvillion penned this news story about the donation of an old Julien cane planter to the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville. Here's the beginning of her story: A vintage sugarcane planting machine — one of 154 made by the Louisianan whose invention ended cane-planting's back-breaking hand labor — has been brought back…
For more than most of his life, Bryan Simon has been involved in the Vermilion Parish agriculture industry. An active Farm Bureau member for 25 years, serving as president for six, Simon understands how important agriculture is to the parish. The Rotary Club of Abbeville also understands agriculture’s significance, as each year it names a “Farmer of the Year.”…
Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Delta Biofuel CEO Philip Keating announced the company is evaluating Iberia Parish, Louisiana, for a planned $70 million renewable fuel plant. The planned production facility would produce biomass fuel pellets made from residual sugarcane fiber, known as bagasse. If located in Louisiana, Delta would create 126 new direct jobs with an average salary…
The 2020-21 Louisiana sugarcane crop is almost complete after four months of grinding, and it appears the crop will set a record. “We’re going to produce almost 2 million tons of sugar. That’s a record for Louisiana,” said Kenneth Gravois, LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist. By Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter Harvest started in September and continued for almost 125 consecutive…
Reporter Dwayne Fatherree of the Daily Iberian interviewed several Louisiana sugarcane farmers and found an unnecessary headache that plagues the producers is illegal dumping. Here's Fatheree's report. As the sugar cane harvest keeps rolling along, most people see the oversized trucks and stubbled fields as signs of progress. But there are some obstacles to getting all of the work…
Raising Cane by writer Shane Mitchell is one of the feature stories in the November issue of the Bitter Southerner. The story is about growing sugarcane in the South and features interviews with sugarcane farmer Patrick Frischhertz of St. Louis Planting in Iberville Parish and Charles Schudmak at Cora-Texas Manufacturing. The photographs are by Rinne Allen. Mitchell starts her…
Delta Farm Press reports on the new USDA features on farms.gov website to help with guest workers. Jul 28, 2020 New features on USDA's Farmers.gov website are designed to facilitate the employment of H-2A workers. “My mission from the beginning of my time as secretary was to make USDA the most effective, most efficient, most customer-focused department…
A new report has found that U.S. sugar prices do not impede the financial performance of sugar-using firms. And the report’s data is good news for American sugarcane and sugar beet growers. The analysis conducted by four agricultural economics professors at the University of Tennessee and Oklahoma State University rejected claims from sugar-using firms “that as the U.S. price…
Jim Harper, a rice, crawfish, sugarcane and soybean farmer in Rapides Parish, has been elected as the 12th president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau. by Neil Melancon LFBF Media Harper now leads the state’s largest general farm organization at a pivotal moment where farmers face a number of issues in the state and nation. He succeeds Ronnie Anderson of…
The Louisiana Farm and Ranch - June 2020 issue is available here.
