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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.

Sugar Producers Seek Trade Protection After One State Ends Production

It was a sad day when Hawaii's sugarcane industry closed up shop last year. Why did Hawaii go out of business? For many reasons but low prices had a lot to do with it. Here is a video report on the United States sugarcane industry...

Louisiana's sugarcane industry is unique. It produces a top flight sugar harvest that is the envy of the world but if the the state's mills cannot get the guest workers it needs to make raw sugar from cane juice our 221-year-old industry may be in...

Folks who are prone to quoting old adages like "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” often incorrectly attribute the famous saying to Mark Twain, but it was Twain’s contemporary, writer Charles Dudley Warner, who coined the phrase. Twain, a gifted...

Gary Gravois, 51, a third-generation sugarcane farmer in Louisiana’s Assumption Parish, cultivates nearly 2100-acres along with his older brother, Laurent. They are efficient family farmers and believe they can compete with any cane farmer in the world. "Louisiana’s total sugarcane production is worth about $3...

A fifth-generation Louisiana sugarcane farmer and the president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association were among the speakers invited to address legislators, Administration officials, and reporters about the upcoming Farm Bill debate at the Farm Bill Summit in Washington D.C. The Farm Bill summit, organized...

Twenty-six farmers and others who work in the Louisiana sugar industry have begun a six-month program that will help them learn about important scientific and economic topics. The LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Production School held its first session on March 16 and 17 on the LSU...

The American Sugar Cane League selected a White Castle sugar mill operator as president of the organization at the group’s annual meeting at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel February 7. Charles Schudmak of Cora Texas Manufacturing Company will serve two years as president of the...

Courtney Gaine believes in her product so much she eats M&Ms for breakfast. Gaine is the president and CEO of the Sugar Association, a trade association based in Washington, D.C. Peculiar diet aside, she nonetheless looks fit enough to step back on the basketball court...

A new school for Louisiana sugarcane farmers will begin classes this year on the LSU campus, the manager for the American Sugar Cane League said at a series of grower meetings. Jim Simon announced the plan at LSU AgCenter meetings in St. Martinville and Jeanerette...

The 2016 Louisiana sugarcane season has ended with a record set for the amount of sugar obtained per ton of cane. "Tonnage was really light, but we blew the roof off sugar recovery,” said LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist Kenneth Gravois. The average sugar recovery set...

While many were opening presents Christmas morning, sugar-cane farmer Ronnie Waguespack was in the field bright and early. Despite a few days of rain, this grinding season was relatively dry. That reflects on the sugar content, Waguespack said, as farmers sent less mud to the...

For nearly three months, sugarcane farmers have been harvesting their fields and trying to finish before the New Year. While the crop has been light in terms of tonnage, sugar recovery has been excellent. LSU AgCenter reporter Craig Gautreaux has the story. WATCH THE VIDEO

Check back frequently to stay up to date on breaking news, legislative issues and other important information about the sugar industry.

Sugar Producers Seek Trade Protection After One State Ends Production

The issue with a visa cap

Weather is weather

Louisiana sugarcane farmers support “zero-for-zero” policy

Louisiana sugarcane farmer addresses National Farm Bill Summit

Sugarcane farmers head back to school for LSU AgCenter program

League elects new officers

Bittersweet: Is it sugar vs. the world?

Sugar school to begin this year

Louisiana sugar harvest sets record

Sugarcane grinding season coming to an end

Good harvesting conditions help sugarcane recovery