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.
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…
