The American Sugar Cane League, which represents the Louisiana sugarcane industry, wholeheartedly supports “zero-for-zero” legislation to reform and replace the current no-cost sugar policy. Louisiana congressional representatives Garret Graves (R) of Baton…
The 2018 Louisiana sugarcane harvest resulted in record yield in terms of tonnage but a reduced sugar recovery from last year. By Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter “When it’s all said and done, we should make the same amount of sugar, which was a record last year,”…
Catherine LaCour of Pointe Coupee Parish and Joel Gasper of Crookston, Minnesota farm with their families. Here’s the editorial they penned that ran in the Washington Examiner March 6, 2018 about what it’s like to be a sugar farmer today. Their message?…
Erath sugarcane farmer Charles Guidry and his sons were featured in an advertisement in the Washington D.C. edition of the Wall Street Journal that pleaded with Congress not to “cut them out of the Farm Bill.” Sugar farmers from across the country…
Warren Harang III of Donaldsonville, Greg Nolan of Thibodaux and Ronald Gonsoulin of New Iberia were honored at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Sugar Cane League for their years of service to the League and to the Louisiana sugarcane industry. Warren stole the…
Plaquemine sugarcane farmer John Gay was honored by the American Sugar Cane League and received the President’s Award, the highest honor the League bestows upon a member. Charles Schudmak, League president and CEO of Cora-Texas Manufacturing Company Factory in White…
The debate over the future of no-cost sugar policy has been going on longer than most Hill staffers have been alive. And neither the tactics nor the talking points used by the anti-farmer crowd has changed very much over that time. For decades, each Halloween has…
The LSU AgCenter Sugar Research Station will host its 35th annual sugarcane field day on July 19. Registration begins at 8 a.m. at the station, with field tours starting at 9 a.m. An indoor program will begin at 11 a.m. followed by lunch at noon. Topics to be covered…
“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…