Area sugarcane producers gathered at the Louisiana Sugarcane Cooperative (LASUCA) factory in St. Martinville to hear the latest from researchers at the 63rd LSU AgCenter St. Martin, Lafayette & Acadia Parishes Sugarcane Field Day on July 21. By V. Todd Miller, LSU…
Patrick Frischhertz, a sugarcane grower from Plaquemine, Louisiana testified before the House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit on Wednesday, April 26. Speaking on behalf of the American Sugar Alliance, Frischhertz called on…
The faculty of the LSU AgCenter Audubon Sugar Institute won multiple awards and honors at the 31st International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Congress in Hyderabad, India in March 2023. Awards can act as a barometer and prove that the institute’s work has…
Louisiana’s sugarcane growers and millers cast their eyes towards Washington D.C. as Dr. Rob Johansson, Director of Economics and Policy Analysis at the American Sugar Alliance (ASA), testified before the House Committee on Agriculture March 1 on the importance of…
Kenneth Gravois, LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist, said the muddy 2018 harvest affected the recent sugarcane crop with reduced cane tonnage. “It was a light crop,” Gravois said. “Anytime you have a muddy harvest in the previous year, you have a hangover effect…
ST. GABRIEL — In a sense, two new sugar cane varieties announced at a public gathering this week were more than a century years in the making. The crossbred cane, developed at LSU’s sugar research station in St. Gabriel and the U.S. Department of…
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,”…
Reporter Bryn Stole of The Advocate’s Washington D.C.desk filed this story on guest laborers who are only needed seasonally. Photo: Local laborers are difficult to find for seasonal labor in sugarcane, seafood processing and landscaping industries. Sugarcane…