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Assumption Parish cane farmers want safe harvest; ask public for cooperation

September 22, 2022
Sam Irwin
Media News Report

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...

Charley Richard shares a lifetime of sugar knowledge, from cane and beets

Charley Richard 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...

Vintage Julien cane planter set for River Road African American Museum

March 14, 2022
Sam Irwin
Media News Report

Julien planter at work. Photo provided by the Leonard Julien family. 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:...

Rotary Club of Abbeville names Bryan Simon ‘Farmer of the Year’

September 23, 2021
Sam Irwin
Media News Report

Rotary Club of Abbeville President Annette Mudd and Rotarian Mark Shirley (right) present Bryan Simon with the “Farmer of the Year” Award. Photo by VermilionToday.com For more than most of his life, Bryan Simon has been involved in the Vermilion Parish agriculture industry. An active...

Delta Biofuel Proposes $70 Million Renewable Fuel Plant in Jeanerette

A front-end loader moves bagasse at the Cor-Texas sugar mill. 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...

Farmers wrap up record sugarcane season

January 28, 2021
Sam Irwin
LSU AgCenter Media News Report, Media News Report

The Louisiana Sugarcane Cooperative sugar mill near St. Martinville in operation Wednesday, Jan. 27, within the last few days of grinding. 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...

Trash, trespassing becoming issue for sugar cane farmers

December 23, 2020
Sam Irwin
Media News Report

Debris illegally dumped in a sugarcane field. Photo by Iberia Parish Sheriff's office. 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...

Raising Cane

November 30, 2020
Sam Irwin
Media News Report

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...

Help for employers who employ H-2A workers

Guest workers at a sugarcane farm in Iberville Parish. 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...

New Report Finds No Evidence that U.S. Sugar Program Harms Profitability of Sugar-Using Companies

Raw sugar at Alma Plantation, La. 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...

Sugarcane Farmer Elected President of LFB

Photo by Adrienne Battistella 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...

Louisiana Farm and Ranch Magazine – June 2020

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