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.
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…
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…
By all accounts, Loreauville sugarcane farmer Todd Landry is a great farmer. Loreauville Harvesting, his farming operation, manages more than 2400 acres along the Teche valley bottomland. He farms alongside his younger brother, Patrick, who also owns an interest in the farm. His wife, Kelly, takes care of the bookwork. Nevin, his 24-year-old son, recently finished college and is…
In medieval times, noble families had specific rules for inheritance. The oldest son inherited the noble title, and more importantly, all of the lands. The best bet for the second son was to become a scholar and learn to make a living by his wits. The third son was “given” to the Church. The female heirs were married off…
A lot has changed in southeastern Lafayette Parish since Eddie "Boss Man” Lewis Sr., 72, was a young man. Pinhook Road east of the Vermilion River was a two-lane highway all the way to Broussard. Sugarcane occupied the real estate populated by oil field support companies north of Pinhook to Hwy 90, which was not yet the "future corridor…
Grower Profile: Young Farmers; Young Family A lot of industry observers would classify Bobby Morris of West Baton Rouge Parish and his family members that make up Morris Farms Partnership as the ideal American family farming enterprise. They’re traditional. They’re fourth generation farmers who learned the profession from their father, Robert Morris. Elder Morris is the ranking member of…
Photos from the Louisiana sugarcane harvest, December 2012, on the Mark Patout farm near Patoutville, La. Sugarcane Harvest, December 2012, Mark Patout Farm
Sugarcane farmer Mark Patout might be more comfortable in the cane field than anywhere else. He is absolutely and positively dedicated to his sugarcane crop and holds himself and his employees to a high work standard. In early December he was a little more than a month away from finishing his harvest and was cutting fields off Jeanerette Canal…
