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You've found Sugarcane in the News, the home of the official American Sugar Cane League press releases and other news stories about the sugar industry. In this section you will find links to the Sugar News, our email newsletter about the the people who have made sugarcane the Louisiana's number one crop for more than two centuries. You can sign up to receive the Sugar News in your mailbox here.

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.

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The Best is Yet To Come

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?...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Check back frequently to stay up to date on breaking news, legislative issues and other important information about the sugar industry.

The Best is Yet To Come

U.S. Senate approves Farm Bill, sugar policy maintained for five years

Large 2013 crop hampered by poor prices

Louisiana Sugarcane: A Resilient Crop

ASCL launches billboard safety campaign

Greg Nolan Chosen to Reign as King Sucrose LXXII

ATVs and Sugarcane Planting

Louisiana Sugar Cane Family Signs Available

The Eddie Lewis Family of Youngsville

Researchers continue to look for ways to reduce cane field burning

ASCL supports anti-flooding resolution

A Farmer’s Prayer