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.
Excessive rainfall continues to hamper sugarcane harvesting in Acadiana.Here's Caroline Marcello of KLFY-TV (Lafayette, La.) with her November 8, 2018 report. WATCH THE VIDEO
To the uninformed, Cora Texas Manufacturing Company near White Castle looks like most plants in Iberville Parish.Except for the line of sugar cane trucks during the 100-day period farmers and employees of Cora Tex call "the grind.”by Tommy Comeaux, Plaquemine Post South On inside, it’s a steamy maze of pipes of all sizes going hither and yonder to tanks…
WAFB-TV reporter Cheryl Mercedes report from St. James Parish that the Sunshine Bridge closure will have an effect on the sugarcane industry. WATCH THE REPORT.
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 millers rely on the H2B visa program to procure specialized labor for the sugar boiler position, a technical job inside the sugar…
Sugarcane farmers, millers and researchers gathered at the LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Research Farm in St. Gabriel to hear the latest in sugarcane research. View the photos... CLICK HERE
NEW ORLEANS — The United States Department of Agriculture is expecting sugar beet production to be reduced about four percent and sugarcane about three percent from 2017-18 levels for the 2018-19 crop years, said LSU AgCenter economist Michael Deliberto.Deliberto made his comments at the sugarcane conference of the 96th Annual Convention of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation.Photo: A front-end…
Norbert Rillieux, Allen Ramsey Wurtele and Leonard Julien had two things in common.They all were from south Louisiana, and their inventions forever changed the sugar cane industry.The three men anchor the West Baton Rouge Museum's new "Rural Engineuity" exhibit, which runs through Aug. 5 andhighlights the innovations and people who transformed sugar cane farming and processing in the rural…
With British ships blocking Caribbean trade routes, Napoleon Bonaparte found France facing a difficult problem. Sugar, which had become a staple of high-society diet, was in short supply. When French scientists gave Napoleon sugar made from beets, he directed farmers to plant a massive crop and provided government money to help build processing factories. The large-scale production invented in…
Denise Drake grew up one of 11 siblings in Baltimore. At nights, she’d gaze at the iconic Domino Sugar refinery that has long illuminated the city’s Inner Harbor. But, she never realized just how close her home was to the refinery until she came to work there decades ago. Today, Drake lives in the Baltimore County neighborhood of Windsor…
Like sugar cane in the late fall, the fate of U.S. farmers facing the threat of increased sugar imports is blowing in the wind in Washington.The 2018 Farm Bill became a political football once again Friday when the House voted it down, 198-213. The defeat, orchestrated by the Republican Freedom Caucus when it didn’t get its way, was felt…
The West Baton Rouge Museum is pleased to announce a new exhibition entitled Rural Engineuity which will open on May 19th and run through August 5th, 2018. This exhibition highlights the innovations and people who transformed sugarcane farming and processing in the rural south. The tractor has been called the most important agricultural advancement of our time and its…
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? Don't cut our families out of the farm bill.It’s a great time to be in business in…
