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.
The Best is Yet to Come By Jim Simon The 2012 sugarcane harvest was a record production year, not just for sugarcane farmers, but also for the Midwestern beet farmers. It would be impossible for the 2013 crop to even come near 2012’s output, right? Well, not exactly. Because the sugarcane plant is an amazing organism and the Louisiana…
Lafayette, La. - Several hundred of Louisiana’s sugarcane farmers and millers were listening to national agricultural journalist Jim Wiesemeyer’s talk about the sugar industry at the 91st annual meeting of the American Sugar Cane League at Hilton Lafayette when they got word that the United States Senate approved a new five-year farm bill. The audience burst into a spontaneous…
LAFAYETTE, LA. – Jim Simon, manager of the American Sugar Cane League (ASCL), said the 2013 sugarcane crop was, from a production stand point, one of the best in the 219-year history of Louisiana sugarcane farming despite two hard freezes during the harvest. "The success of this crop is due to the excellent research program we have in Louisiana,…
The Louisiana sugarcane plant is a remarkable biological organism well suited to Acadiana’s extraordinary climate. It can be flattened by high wind but its stalks grow skyward after exposure to a few days of sunlight. A hurricane can dump 20 inches of rain, an extraordinary amount of water that would destroy other row crops, but sugarcane endures and can…
The American Sugar Cane League is serious about promoting driver safety during the 2013 harvest season and has placed billboards on Louisiana's highways with its safety message to prove its point. Mike Daigle, president of the League, said the billboards are colorful but also impart a serious safety message. "The sugarcane industry is extremely important to Louisiana and we…
Greg Nolan of Thibodaux will reign as King Sucrose LXXII over the Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival to be celebrated in New Iberia on September 26-28. Greg, born in Biloxi, Mississippi, has been part of the sugar industry for most of his life. His parents and grandparents, born and bred in St. Mary Parish cane country along Bayou Teche, have…
Farm safety is of paramount concern now that sugarcane planting is in full swing and the motoring public needs to be aware, said Mike Daigle, president of the American Sugar Cane League. "Right now farmers are in the fields cutting seed cane for planting and sugarcane equipment is not yet on the roads,” Daigle said. "The trouble is there…
The American Sugar Cane League unveiled a new "Louisiana Sugar Cane Family” sign that will be available to sugarcane farmers and millers but also to the general public, said League president Mike Daigle. The two-tone verdant green sign features the Louisiana Sugar Cane Family theme and a picture of a sugarcane stalk with the words "Since 1795” emblazoned across…
A lot has changed in southeastern Lafayette Parish since Eddie "Boss Man” Lewis Sr., 72, was a young man. Pinhook Road east of the Vermilion River was a two-lane highway all the way to Broussard. Sugarcane occupied the real estate populated by oil field support companies north of Pinhook to Hwy 90, which was not yet the "future corridor…
The 2012 sugarcane harvest and milling season is running at peak production levels and farmers and millers are rushing to bring in the crop, but cane researchers methodically continue to look for ways to lessen the impact and possibly eliminate the need for field burning. Ryan Viator, a sugarcane researcher with the United States Department of Agriculture Research Station…
The American Sugar Cane League (ASCL) passed a resolution encouraging the United States Army Corps of Engineers to look at ways to protect sugarcane and other agricultural farmland in Louisiana’s Sugar Belt.In recent years sugarcane farmers have suffered from abnormal field inundation caused by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike and Isaac.The ASCL’s board of directors voted unanimously at their…
NEW IBERIA, LA.- When ancient farmers planted their crops, they paid homage to God, and they have been doing so ever since. Catholicism and sugarcane have been linked ever since the Jesuits prayed for sugarcane success when they first planted the crop in the Bayou State in the 1700s. No doubt Louisiana’s colonial agricultural producers were asking heaven for…
