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.
Louisiana's sugarcane growers are pleased that the United States House of Representatives maintained current, no-cost sugar policy in the farm bill passed on Thursday, said Jim Simon of the American Sugar Cane League. "Having a strong safety net in place for the next five years is very important to Louisiana's sugarcane producers," Simon said. "It creates a stability for…
Louisiana’s Congressional delegation helped defeat a farm bill amendment that would have crippled the state’s sugarcane industry, said Charles Schudmak, president of the American Sugar Cane League. "The so-called Sugar Policy Modernization Act, also known in Louisiana as the Sugar Farmer Bankruptcy Bill was defeated in the House of Representatives yesterday by a wide 141 vote margin,” Schudmak said…
Louisiana's 11 raw sugar factories, its two sugar refineries and the American Sugar Cane League today joined hundreds of other agricultural interests in a broad coalition letter to Congressional members urging them to reject any farm bill amendments that could hurt America's farming families, said League president Charles Schudmak. In addition to the League, the American Farm Bureau Federation,…
Agronomist Wilson E. Judice of Centerville, La. has joined the staff of the American Sugar Cane League. The addition of Judice brings the League agronomy staff to three. Supervised by senior agronomist Herman Waguespack Jr., he will monitor the primary and secondary seed increase stations in the Bayou Teche and northern parish regions of the Louisiana sugar belt. Fellow…
Sugarcane, a plant that makes sugar, has been around since 8,000 B.C., but humankind did not learn to make crystallized sugar until 500 B.C. When Alexander the Great had conquered much of Asia in 325 B.C., he learned of sugar and said it was "honey without bees.” He introduced the sweetener to the Mediterranean. From India, sugar was brought…
Louisiana’s congressional delegation were successful in getting exemptions for H2B "returning workers” included in the recently passed $1.3 trillion spending bill that funds the government for the remainder of fiscal year 2018. "We’ve supported a returning worker exemption for some time and we’re grateful our members of Congress were able to get it in the spending package,” said Jim…
Michael Harper’sfamily has been farming in Cheneyville, a town of about 600, since right after the Civil War. He’s a sixth-generation grower at the northern tip of Louisiana’s sugar country, farming today with his father, uncle and cousin-in-law. In the 153 years since his first relative planted a crop in the muddy soil about 2 hours northwest of Baton…
Erath sugarcane farmer Charles Guidry and his sons were featured in an advertisement in the Washington D.C. edition of the Wall Street Journal that pleaded with Congress not to "cut them out of the Farm Bill." Sugar farmers from across the country descended today on Capitol Hill for two weeks of meetings with lawmakers. Guidry will visit Congress later…
Plaquemine sugarcane farmer John Gay was honored by the American Sugar Cane League and received the President’s Award, the highest honor the League bestows upon a member. Charles Schudmak, League president and CEO of Cora-Texas Manufacturing Company Factory in White Castle, La., presented the award to Gay at the League’s annual meeting held February 6 at the Crowne Plaza…
When Kendall Busch learned of a scathing attack on his U.S. Senator for supporting an industry that has meant generations of reliable, good-paying, jobs in Nebraska, he was pretty upset. The Scottsbluff, Nebraska, sugarbeet grower couldn’t believe that someone would attempt to tarnish Sen. Deb Fischer’s record of backing American sugar farmers. "I was angry,” he said. "Making deceptive claims…
As of January 5, Louisiana’s sugarcane producers had processed more than 90 percent of the crop and the harvest was turning out to be exceptional. Tonnage was high and recovered sugar per ton was running just a smidgen below last year’s record sugar recovery. The final numbers weren’t in but the LSU AgCenter and area newspapers reported a possible…
