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.
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…
Do it yourself — that’s the only way that sugarcane farmer Lane Blanchard and his brothers, Harvey and Brant know how to make things happen down at their Iberia Parish farm. “We do everything ourselves,” Lane said. “From tire repair to oil changes — very seldom does something go to the shop. Anything mechanical, we pretty much do here.”…
Grower Profile: The Bubenzer Family Sugar News, July 2014 As a colony for the French and Spanish, Louisiana was pretty much a bust. The only thing Louisiana had going for it prior to 1795 was New Orleans. Whoever controlled New Orleans controlled the commerce of the Mississippi River. What happened in 1795? Sugar happened. When Etienne DeBoré perfected the…
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…
Louisiana’s sugarcane industry has been a top economic driver in the state for more than 221 years and is celebrating the family farmers who have been farming cane for generations in a series of television ads this harvesting season. The ads will feature three farming families well known to the industry: the Bubenzer family of Avoyelles Parish, the Gravois family of…
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…
Grower Profile Joby Beaud It’s late February and sugarcane grower Joe Beaud III, of New Roads is standing under his farm shed looking out at his cane field south of LaBarre Service Road. The shed is immaculately clean and his tractors and equipment boast a spit-polish shine — his pickup truck not so much. Mud, possibly from the Paleolithic…
The Best is Yet to Come By Jim Simon The 2012 sugarcane harvest was a record production year, not just for sugarcane farmers, but also for the Midwestern beet farmers. It would be impossible for the 2013 crop to even come near 2012’s output, right? Well, not exactly. Because the sugarcane plant is an amazing organism and the Louisiana…
Lafayette, La. - Several hundred of Louisiana’s sugarcane farmers and millers were listening to national agricultural journalist Jim Wiesemeyer’s talk about the sugar industry at the 91st annual meeting of the American Sugar Cane League at Hilton Lafayette when they got word that the United States Senate approved a new five-year farm bill. The audience burst into a spontaneous…
LAFAYETTE, LA. – Jim Simon, manager of the American Sugar Cane League (ASCL), said the 2013 sugarcane crop was, from a production stand point, one of the best in the 219-year history of Louisiana sugarcane farming despite two hard freezes during the harvest. "The success of this crop is due to the excellent research program we have in Louisiana,…
