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 create energy in the steam…
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, and actually it was slow until…
Sugarcane producer Paul Schexnayder doesn’t call a lot of attention to his farming operation in Pointe Coupee Parish. He’s just concentrating on getting the most sugar out of the land. Like many farmers, he keeps a low profile and seemed a bit surprised that the…
The Louisiana Sugarcane Festival has a new King Sucrose. It’s Al Landry Jr. of White Castle. The Daily Iberian reported the news in its July 30, 2019 edition. Here’s the report: The Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival has a new King Sucrose. He was crowned…
The 2019 LSU AgCenter Iberia, St. Mary and Vermilion Parish Sugarcane Field Day was held July 23 at the LSU AgCenter Farm in Jeanerette. See the photos HERE.
After escaping Hurricane Barry with minimal damage, the Louisiana sugarcane crop seems to be on track for another successful harvest. Barry, a Category 1 hurricane that made landfall July 13 near Vermilion Bay, delivered anywhere from 3 to 14 inches of rain across the…
The Lacours of Pointe Coupee George and cour; Gertrude Lacour Hawkins Pointe Coupee grower George Lacour is essentially a first-generation sugarcane farmer. Yes, his family has been in farming for generations in Louisiana but George only began to grow sugarcane…
The American Sugar Cane League’s Variety Release Committee unanimously approved the release of two new varieties, Ho 12-615 and L 12-201, for commercial planting in the summer of 2019. The committee is composed of representative researchers from the United States…
Several Louisiana sugarcane farmers recently completed “fly-ins” to Washington D.C. to meet with Congressional leaders and staffers and other movers and shakers of American farm policy. These fly-ins are a laborious undertaking. They are three solid days…