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 Sugar Refining LLC is establishing a scholarship in the LSU College of Agriculture.General manager and CEO Larry Faucheux said his company sees the scholarship as a way to help the next generation of their potential employees. "This will allow…
Louisiana’s 2018 sugarcane harvest season has been wet and muddy thus far, but the state’s farmers and millers got some good news when President Donald Trump officially signed the 2018 Farm Bill which extended U.S. sugar policy for another five…
December 11, 2018 Louisiana Sugarcane Industry Wants New Farm Bill in Place Before 2019 The president of the American Sugar Cane League is urging the Louisiana Congressional delegation to get behind the final version of the farm bill and ensure…
Excessive rainfall continues to hamper sugarcane harvesting in Acadiana.Here's Caroline Marcello of KLFY-TV (Lafayette, La.) with her November 8, 2018 report. WATCH THE VIDEO
To the uninformed, Cora Texas Manufacturing Company near White Castle looks like most plants in Iberville Parish.Except for the line of sugar cane trucks during the 100-day period farmers and employees of Cora Tex call "the grind.”by Tommy Comeaux, Plaquemine…
The 2018 Iberia, St. Mary Vermilion LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Field Day. SEE THE PHOTOS
Dr. Al Orgeron and Dr Michael Pontif of the LSU AgCenter spoke at the Assumption Parish Sugarcane Field Day on their research. HEAR THE PODCAST
The American Sugar Cane League applauded the work of Louisiana’s senators for their role in the passage of the farm bill. "Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy played a critical role in maintaining no-cost sugar policy in the farm bill,”…
NEW ORLEANS — The United States Department of Agriculture is expecting sugar beet production to be reduced about four percent and sugarcane about three percent from 2017-18 levels for the 2018-19 crop years, said LSU AgCenter economist Michael Deliberto.Deliberto made…
Norbert Rillieux, Allen Ramsey Wurtele and Leonard Julien had two things in common.They all were from south Louisiana, and their inventions forever changed the sugar cane industry.The three men anchor the West Baton Rouge Museum's new "Rural Engineuity" exhibit, which…
Denise Drake grew up one of 11 siblings in Baltimore. At nights, she’d gaze at the iconic Domino Sugar refinery that has long illuminated the city’s Inner Harbor. But, she never realized just how close her home was to the…
Sugarcane, a plant that makes sugar, has been around since 8,000 B.C., but humankind did not learn to make crystallized sugar until 500 B.C. When Alexander the Great had conquered much of Asia in 325 B.C., he learned of sugar…