Cover Crops – Dr. Al Orgeron
Dr. Al Orgeron of the LSU AgCenter discusses cover crops at the Sugarcane Model Farm in Napoleonville, La.; September 20, 2022.
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Dr. Al Orgeron of the LSU AgCenter discusses cover crops at the Sugarcane Model Farm in Napoleonville, La.; September 20, 2022.
Dr. Lisa Fultz, LSU AgCenter Soil Microbiologist; Dr. Donna Gentry, Louisiana Master Farmer Program and James Hendrix, LSU AgCenter Associate Area Agent, discuss soil at the Sugarcane Model Farm in Napoleonville, La. September 20, 2022.
Assumption Parish Farm Bureau and its sugarcane farmers would like to remind everyone that harvest season will be starting soon. Both sugar mills (Lula Sugar Factory, Belle Rose and Westfield Sugar Factory, Paincourtville) in our parish expect to open the…
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Ongoing LSU AgCenter research collaborations with farmers across Louisiana are leveraging data science and artificial intelligence, or AI, to grow more and better food and fiber, such as sugarcane, despite great challenges. Sugarcane is arguably the most successful crop in…
The American Sugarcane League and its partner, the Sugar Association (SAI) celebrate October 14, 2022 as the first annual National Real Sugar Day. It’s the day to celebrate real sugar with your sugar producing neighbors in Louisiana as well as…
The American Sugar Cane League gave a $2,500 grant to the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville to help defray the cost of a protective shed over the vintage 1965 “Julien” sugarcane planter exhibit at the museum. The planter…
Louisiana sugarcane farmers are racing to get their crop planted while simultaneously preparing for this year’s harvest, which is scheduled to begin in mid-September. LSU AgCenter correspondent Craig Gautreaux has this report from south Louisiana.
THE SUGAR BEAT September 12, 2022 Key Senators Urge USDA to Support Sugar Policy, U.S. Sugar Producers Praise Bipartisan Letter Key U.S. senators urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to “reject proposals that would weaken U.S. sugar…
The Fall LSU AgCenter Best Management Practices in Sugarcane Production Field Day will be held Tuesday, September 20 at Dugas Farm, 5585 La. Hwy 1 in Napoleonville. Registration starts at 8 a.m. The field tours will include an overview of…
Louisiana sugarcane farmers plant whole stalks of sugarcane by hand or plant shorter stalks called billets with mechanical planters. Farmers try to get their planting done by the end of September for harvesting 12 months later.
(08/15/2022) ERATH, La. — Across Louisiana’s southern sugar belt, producers were given sneak peeks at new sugarcane varieties and developing crop management technologies at a series of sugarcane field days held throughout the LSU AgCenter’s Southwest region in late July.…