Raising Cane In Louisiana
Louisiana has been growing sugarcane and producing sugar for more than 200 years. Here's how we do it.
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.
Check back frequently to stay up to date on breaking news, legislative issues and other important information about the sugar industry.
Crushing Cane at a Louisiana Sugar Mill
Sugarcane is crushed by a series of rollers at a Louisiana sugarcane mill to extract the cane juice used to make sugar. Like these videos of the Louisiana sugarcane industry? Follow us on TikTok at louisianasugarcane.
League director Jim Simon on the 2022 crop year
American Sugar Cane League manager Jim Simon met with Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish growers on January 25 and talked about the exceptional 2022 sugarcane crop and what will affect the 2023 sugar market.
Fund developed to increase sugarcane production
Harry L. Laws & Company, the majority owner of the Catherine Sugar Company, is creating a non-endowed fund to further research at the LSU AgCenter Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel. The $250,000 fund, which will be known as the…
Christmas freeze affects record sugarcane crop
Louisiana sugarcane farmers have produced a record amount of sugar this year, but three days of hard freezing temperatures at Christmas created issues for the crop still left in the field. LSU AgCenter correspondent Craig Gautreaux has this report from…
Bain sugarcane farm featured on TWILA
Sugarcane producer Will Bain's family farming operation was featured on This Week In Louisiana Agriculture. Here's the story from TWILA reporter Neil Melancon. Not far from the Dean Lee Research Station, sugarcane harvest is well underway. Will Bain and his…
How Louisiana Has Sweetened America for Two Centuries
Louisiana farmers are growing sugarcane on some of the same soil their ancestors did more than two centuries ago. The key to the resilience and success of Louisiana’s 450 cane farming families and 11 raw sugar mills is simple: “We…
What a treat! America’s sugar farmers keep Halloween sweet
This Halloween, Americans are estimated to spend a record $3 billion on Halloween candy for a second year in a row. Despite the inflationary rise of candy prices, the sugar in it still only accounts for a couple cents…
A year after Hurricane Ida, this year’s sugar-cane harvest is looking sweet in Terrebonne, Lafourche
Colin Campo of the Daily Comet interviewed two sugarcane farmers from the Lafourche-Terrebonne parish area to compare the 2021 crop ravaged by Hurricane Ida and what the 2022 looks like. Here's the beginning of his report. Sugar-cane farmers in Terrebonne…
Sugarcane harvest underway
The 2022-23 Louisiana sugarcane harvest is in full swing now and most everyone in the industry is feeling optimistic for a good harvest. Sugarcane acreage increased again this year. In 2021, 469,000 acres were harvested but this season about 475,000…
National Real Sugar Day is October 14
National Real Sugar Day is October 14, and the Louisiana sugar industry invites you to celebrate real sugar. Sugar has been an important economic driver in Louisiana for many years, and as modern planting and harvesting techniques revolutionized the industry…
Soil Testing
Dr. Franta Majs of the LSU AgCenter discusses the importance of soil testing in Louisiana sugarcane fields at the Sugarcane Model Farm in Napoleonville, La. September 22, 2022.
