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.
(11/14/17) NEW IBERIA, La. — The 2017 Louisiana sugarcane crop is meeting expectations as the harvest approaches the halfway point. "Tonnage is good, and sugar recovery is good,” said LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist Kenneth Gravois. "For both of them to be good in the same year is rare. Everybody is really pleased.” Last year, sugar recovery was high, setting a record,…
The debate over the future of no-cost sugar policy has been going on longer than most Hill staffers have been alive. And neither the tactics nor the talking points used by the anti-farmer crowd has changed very much over that time. For decades, each Halloween has included the same painfully punny attacks against U.S. sugar farmers. References to the…
Travis Medine has been farming sugarcane for 14 years in Port Allen, Louisiana, outside of Baton Rouge.PHOTO: Travis Medine directs a tractor driver during the 2015 planting season. Photo by ASCL-SamIrwin. Harvest time is always an adventure with Louisiana's wet weather and often muddy soil. Four inches of rain in a single event during the harvest period is not…
With grinding a few weeks underway, early indicators are that local sugar-cane farmers will have a good season.Herman Waguespack, senior agronomist for the Thibodaux-based American Sugar Cane League, said most growers he’s talked to have had a positive season so far. However, some still haven’t finished planting.Although recent storms dumped several inches of rain locally, Waguespack said the area…
Judging by the first 10 to 15 percent of sugar cane that has made its way to the sugar mills this season, things are looking good for the fall harvest.DAILY IBERIAN NEWS STORY BY DANNY FENSTERPhoto: Raw sugar loaded into a Bayou Teche barge from Cajun Sugar Mill (Sam Irwin-American Sugar Cane League)Mills began running in the Teche Area…
The 217-year-old Louisiana sugarcane industry continues to bring thousands of jobs and billion of dollars into the state. That's why the Teche Growers Association wants to preserve sugarcane's rich history. WATCH THE KLFY-TV NEWS STORY
For the past few weeks, sugarcane farmers in Louisiana planted hundreds of acres of land of sugarcane for the year. Harvest time is approaching quickly and many local farmers are working seven days a week to get their crops ready. WATCH THE KLFY-TV NEWS STORY
HOUSTON - The Louisiana sugar industry delivered a truckload of sugar Thursday (Sept. 21) to Houston to resupply the Houston Food Bank with the sweet ingredient. Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR) of Gramercy, La. suppliedeight pallets of its Southern Cane brand and ASR Group sent eight pallets of its iconic brand of Domino® Sugar from its Chalmette Refinery. Lonnie Champagne,…
The LSU AgCenter Sugar Research Station will host its 35th annual sugarcane field day on July 19.Registration begins at 8 a.m. at the station, with field tours starting at 9 a.m. An indoor program will begin at 11 a.m. followed by lunch at noon.Topics to be covered during the field tours include sugarcane variety development, insect pest management, disease…
Rodney Simoneaux of Assumption Parish is surveying a wet field on the north side of Highway 38. Even though it’s late November, he’s hoping it will dry up enough to plant sugarcane. The tract was filled with spoil from a summer Bayou Lafourche dredging project. It’s part of the plan to send more water down the bayou for coastal…
A conversation with St. John the Baptist Parish sugarcane farmer Pierre “Pete” Lanaux slips easily between the past and the present. At 88 years old, Mr. Pete may be the state’s eldest farmer. Certainly, his farming career, which spans 68 years, is older than the average age (55) of the American farmer. By Sam Irwin The octogenarian remembers when…
Donald Segura of New Iberia says he’s retired but he may be busier than ever. For a man that likes to stay busy, that’s saying a lot. The 76-year-old French speaker has concurrently been a sugarcane, okra, pepper, wheat and soybean farmer while he was a dairyman milking 100 cows twice a day, driving a school bus and operating…
