Listen to LSU AgCenter economist Mike Deliberto with his updated 2019-20 Louisiana sugarcane market analysis on the Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast (June 11, 2019).
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.
Check back frequently to stay up to date on breaking news, legislative issues and other important information about the sugar industry.
Dr. Al Orgeron weed report, Iberville Parish, January 2019
Dr. Al Orgeron is the LSU AgCenter weed expert. He conducts a variety of experiments with herbicides to control weed populations in Louisiana’s sugarcane fields. He reports several times a year to the farming community. The Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast…
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Agro Outlook 2019
Jim Wiesemeyer, a policy analyst for Pro Farmer, has interviewed every president on agroeconomic issues since Jimmy Carter. Jim was the featured speaker at the American Sugar Cane League's annual meeting in Baton Rouge on February 5, 2019. LISTEN TO…
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Washington Update
Jack Pettus is the American Sugar Cane League’s Washington Representative. Jack came down to Louisiana for the League’s Annual Meeting in Baton Rouge and gave this Washington Update report to the gathered Louisiana sugar producers. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Podcast: Dr. Kenneth Gravois/2018 harvest review
LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Specialist Dr. Kenneth Gravois presents a wrap-up of the 2018 sugarcane harvest at the January 18, 2019 Iberville Parish growers' meeting. LISTEN TO THE PODCASTPhoto by Sam Irwin, American Sugarcane League Public Relations DirectorSugarcane researchers harvest the…
Dr. Jeff Hoy on “New ground”
Sugarcane farmers notice that "new ground" (land that had not been in production) seems to make a prettier plant than "old ground." LSU AgCenter researcher Dr. Jeff Hoy talks about new ground in this 13-minute podcast. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: League Research Director’s Early Crop Report (2
Herman Waguespack, the American Sugar Cane League's Director of Research, delivered this September 27, 2018 crop report at the League's board of director's meeting. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: The 77th King Sucrose, Donald Segura
Donald Segura, chosen as the 77th King Sucrose of the Louisiana Sugarcane Festival, talks about his farming life and what sugarcane means to him, his family and his community in the Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast. (PHOTO: Donald Segura and his…
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Tubana on nitrogen use efficiency
Dr. Brenda Tubana of the LSU AgCenter talks about using remote sensing technology to improve nitorgen use efficiency in sugarcane. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Cover crops in a sugarcane rotation
Taylor Blanchard, a young sugarcane producer from the Iberia, St. Mary area. Taylor spoke to a gathered group of farmers and researchers at the July 2018 LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Field Day. Taylor talked about the benefits of planting cover crops…
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Blanchard on Heat Treating Seedcane
On July 26, 2018,the Sugarcane News traveled to the LSU AgCenter St. Mary, Iberia and Vermilion Parish sugarcane field day and recorded farmer Lane Blanchard speaking on heat treating seed cane. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Orgeron on Ripeners: Pontiff on L 11-183
Dr. Al Orgeron and Dr Michael Pontif of the LSU AgCenter spoke at the Assumption Parish Sugarcane Field Day on their research. HEAR THE PODCAST