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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Growing cane at the Ramagos farm – photo by Sally Ramagos Ellyn Couvillion of The Advocate reports on the labor challenge posed by the novel coronavirus to Louisiana’s sugarcane producers. The four people from Mexico who have worked seasonally for many…
As America’s love affair with sugar continues, Louisiana sugarcane production is expected tofeed its voracious appetite, closingin on 500,000 acres, experts say. But it’s harder to say what this year’s harvest will yield. “A lot of…
For the past few months, sugarcane farmers have been busy harvesting their crops to get it off to the mill. And, with the number of sugarcane acreage increasing in Acadiana, local sugarcane plants have been processing a near record amount of product again this fall….
Amid inclement weather, weaker sugar recovery and less than ideal field conditions, Louisiana’s sugar cane crop and its farmers are holding strong and may even break last year’s harvesting record. Specialists with the LSU Agricultural Center are predicting…