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.
Jim Simon of the American Sugar Cane League said that preservation of the 2014 Farm Bill as passed by Congress is critical to maintain agriculture’s standing in the United States’ economy. "It’s important to keep the safety net for the sugar program that rarely costs the taxpayer a single penny,” Simon said. "As long as the USDA is allowed…
Agronomist Atticus Finger of Labaideville has been hired by the American Sugar Cane League to manage seed cane increase stations in the Bayou Teche region and northern parishes of Louisiana's sugarcane belt. Finger will also assist in all League crop research activities throughout the region, including new variety outfield testing, cultural practices, pathology testing, billet planting and whole stalk…
The Louisiana sugar industry is following the trade negotiations in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership accord with a keen eye, said Jim Simon, manager of the American Sugar Cane League. "It’s important that the trade agreement doesn’t trade away the ability of our 220-year-old industry to compete,” Simon said. "But it’s not just about Louisiana. It's also about the effect…
Breaux Bridge sugarcane producer Michael G. Melancon was elected the president of the American Sugar Cane League at the group’s annual meeting February 3 at the Lafayette Hilton. Melancon has served on the League’s board of directors for 16 years and has now held every elective office of the organization. Melancon, the 48th League president, succeeds Mike Daigle of…
American Sugar Cane League (ASCL) Manager Jim Simon said U.S. and Mexican government officials yesterday initialed an accord to suspend the ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of sugar from Mexico. Simon was optimistic about the settlement. "I’m hopeful that a final agreement will be reached and the domestic sugar market is stabilized fairly,” Simon said. "The Louisiana industry…
"Cane Families Care” sign campaign underway "Cane Families Care" is the theme of a new sugarcane industry initiative aimed at promoting driver safety within the agricultural sector and the motoring public, said Frankie Sotile, a sugarcane farmer from Ascension Parish. Sotile, chairman of the American Sugar Cane League’s (ASCL) public relations committee, said the ASCL designed two 18” x…
How is sugarcane, Louisiana’s number one row crop, turned into the sugar that’s in your sugar bowl? The answer is explained in "From Louisiana’s Sugar Belt to Your Table,” a new, full color, 16-page educational brochure designed for students of all ages. The brochure is published by the American Sugar Cane League (ASCL) and available for immediate distribution. Frankie…
On behalf of the American Sugar Alliance (ASA), the Louisiana-based American Sugar Cane League forwards this statement from the ASA regarding today’s Dept. of Commerce findings on Mexican sugar subsidies. Dept. of Commerce: Mexican Sugar Subsidies Distort Trade WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) today said Mexican sugar subsidies are giving Mexico’s sugar mills an unfair trade advantage. As…
Windell Jackson, the American Sugar Cane League’s (ASCL) senior agronomist, retired at the end of June after 41 years of working with sugarcane farmers and studying the sugarcane plant. His steadfast dedication to the sugarcane industry is one of the reasons the sugar business continues to be strong, viable and sustainable in south Louisiana. He had an eye for…
ITC: Dumped Mexican Sugar Harming U.S. Farmers, TaxpayersWASHINGTON - American businesses and taxpayers have been harmed by the unfair trading practices of Mexico's sugar industry, which has dumped subsidized sugar onto the U.S. market, according to a preliminary ruling today by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). U.S. sugar producers filed anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions with the ITC…
Sugarcane is for sugarcane In 1922, Louisiana’s sugarcane growers and millers were faced with a difficult decision: change or die. Faced with disease and decreasing sugar yields, the sugar industry consolidated three groups, the Louisiana Sugar Planters Association, American Cane Growers Association, and the Producers and Manufacturers’ Protective Organization into one group dubbed the American Sugar Cane League. Their…
Farm Labor: No Easy Task By Jim Simon Efficiencies rule American agriculture. Cotton, beans and corn can be picked by a combine that can harvest six rows at a time. In the 1960s, a Louisiana sugarcane farmer could only manage a 400-acre farm. Today, that same sugarcane farmer can effectively cultivate a 2,000-acre and bigger farm. Tied in with…
