Raw Sugar Wagon
That golden hill behind this truck is raw sugar. By the end of the sugarcane harvest, this warehouse, which is about the size of a football field, will be filled with raw sugar. The truck/trailer will eventually haul all of…
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.
That golden hill behind this truck is raw sugar. By the end of the sugarcane harvest, this warehouse, which is about the size of a football field, will be filled with raw sugar. The truck/trailer will eventually haul all of…
When farmers put their mind to something, the work gets done. That’s how St. Mary Sugar Co-Op sugarcane mill got started. “The growers got together then and decided they wanted to control their own fate and destiny, so they invested…
The American Sugar Cane League has awarded grants of $3500 each to four museums in south Louisiana with exhibits on the sugarcane industry to help defer transportation costs for school field trips. The museums are the Bayou Teche Museum in…
KADN-TV reporter Philip Boudreaux filed this video report on Tropical Storm Olga and its effect on the Louisiana sugarcane harvest. Here's how he begins: Tropical Storm Olga comes at the peak of the sugar cane harvest so it brings challenges…
Karl Wiggers, a reporter with This Week In Louisiana Agriculture, made it out to the sugarcane fields after an all-day rain and made this great Instagram video of the muddy conditions. Louisiana sugarcane farmers will harvest in any kind of…
This Week In Louisiana Agriculture visited with sugarcane farmer Bobby Morris in West Baton Rouge and got his take on the first three weeks of the harvest.
Neil Melancon of This Week in Louisiana Agriculture filed this great video story on the start of the sugarcane harvest in south Louisiana.
The latest national and Louisiana ag news, market information, and a visit with Iberville Parish sugarcane grower Cecil Ramagos. Cecil gives us an update on cane condition, cane planting and the beginning of cane harvest. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Al Landry Jr. has been chosen to serve as King Sucrose LXXVIII at the 2019 Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival. In the eyes of Alton (Al) Landry Jr., all the past kings of the Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival are in the…
Louisiana's sugarcane industry has a $3 billion impact on the state's economy. The cane stalk is ground and squeezed forcing the plant to give up its juice to make sugar. Bagasse, the fibrous leftover of the plant, is burned to…
In the eyes of Alton (Al) Landry Jr., all the past kings of the Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival are in the pantheon of sugarcane industry leaders. “I’ve always looked up to the men who were the past kings of the…
Sugarcane is one of Louisiana’s top money makers and ensures a way of life for farmers across the state. Now, after a slow start to the year, sugarcane farmers anxiously await harvest. "This crop started out, it was really slow,…