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From Sugar to Sweet Corn: Feeding Our Communities

From Sugar to Sweet Corn: Feeding Our Communities With their friends and neighbors facing job loss and uncertainty due to COVID-19, U.S. Sugar provided 1,000 crates of green beans as well as fresh Florida orange juice to churches, healthcare providers, and food banks across South...

America’s Sugar Growers are Still Farming

Over the past several months, the world has changed dramatically as we confront an unseen enemy. Despite physical distance and stay-at-home orders, Americans have found new community as together we face uncertainty about what tomorrow may bring. Even as this pandemic unfolds, we must continue...

What Mardi Gras Holiday? Louisiana Cane Farmers Lobby Washington During Carnival

March 3, 2020
Sam Irwin
Press Releases

While Louisiana was celebrating Mardi Gras last week, a group of Bayou State sugarcane farmers and millers were trekking to Washington D.C. to educate government lawmakers about America’s no-cost sugar policy. A second wave of cane farmers are making the trip to Capitol Hill today,...

Survey: Americans get great deal on sugar; support sugar farmers

February 24, 2020
Sam Irwin
American Sugar Alliance Press Release, ASCL Staff, Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Sugar farmers from across the country are headed to Capitol Hill today to defend America’s no-cost sugar policy, armed with brand-new data finding consumers believe American-made sugar to be affordable. Although consumers in other developed countries pay about the same as U.S. shoppers...

Jack Roney on U.S. Sugar Policy & Market

February 5, 2020
Sam Irwin
ASCL Staff, Podcast, Press Releases, Video

Jack Roney, an economist with the American Sugar Alliance, addressed the February 4, 2020 annual meeting of the American Sugar Cane League on the subject of the U.S. Sugar policy and market prospects. Bottom Line? He's optimistic. A podcast of Roney's talk is available at...

New Videos Highlight Sugar’s Strides on Sustainability

February 5, 2020
Sam Irwin
American Sugar Alliance Press Release, ASCL Staff

The American Sugar Alliance recently hit the road, traveling from farm to factory to see sustainable sugar production in action. Along the way, we met farmers who care passionately about being good stewards of the land and workers who utilize cutting-edge manufacturing technology to produce...

League Awards Transportation Grants to Local Museums

October 28, 2019
Sam Irwin
Press Releases

The American Sugar Cane League has awarded grants of $3500 each to four museums in south Louisiana with exhibits on the sugarcane industry to help defer transportation costs for school field trips. The museums are the Bayou Teche Museum in New Iberia, the Jeanerette Museum...

American Sugar Policy: It Works!

October 8, 2019
Sam Irwin
Press Releases

Cutline: Raw sugar produced by Louisiana sugar mills is stored in warehouses until the commodity is sold. The American sugar industry that was born in Louisiana in 1795 continues to this day to be a major economic driver for the Bayou State as well as...

Grower Profile: Al Landry Jr.

September 27, 2019
Sam Irwin
Press Releases

In the eyes of Alton (Al) Landry Jr., all the past kings of the Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival are in the pantheon of sugarcane industry leaders. Louisiana sugarcane producer Al Landry Jr. “I’ve always looked up to the men who were the past kings of...

America’s Sugar Industry Launches SugarSustainably.org

September 27, 2019
Sam Irwin
American Sugar Alliance Press Release, ASCL Staff, Press Releases

Sugar Sustainability America’s sugar farmers and workers are global leaders in sustainable production, providing consumers with high-quality sugar produced under some of the world’s strictest safety, labor and environmental standards. And it’s all possible thanks to America’s no-cost sugar policy. Today the American Sugar Alliance...

LSU AgCenter scientists to study sugarcane cold tolerance in central Louisiana

August 26, 2019
Sam Irwin
LSU AgCenterPress Releases, Media News Report, Press Releases

(08/20/19) ALEXANDRIA, La. — The fields at the LSU AgCenter Dean Lee Research and Extension Center have seen all sorts of crop trials over the years — but never any involving sugarcane. Story by LSU AgCenter Write Olivia McClure That’s because the facility is located...

St. Mary Sugar: Doing the right thing

August 15, 2019
Sam Irwin
ASCL StaffPress Releases, Press Releases

St. Mary Sugar, January 2019 "The growers got together then and decided they wanted to control their own fate and destiny, so they invested and built their own sugar mill," said St. Mary Sugar mill general manager David Thibodeaux. It just goes to show, when...

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