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Sugarcane Outlook ‘Sweet’ for Louisiana Farmers

Louisiana’s sugarcane producers were encouraged following the Louisiana Farm Bureau Sugar Conference at the 2023 Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Convention at the New Orleans Marriott. “Sugar is the top commodity of the year,” said Jeff Dobrydney to the farmers, mill operators and ag lenders who...

Pointe Coupee Parish hosts first sugarcane field day of 2023

A group of more than 100 sugarcane growers, LSU AgCenter researchers and other interested parties assembled at Joby Beaud's barn in the LaBarre community north of New Roads to hear the latest about new cane variety developments, weed control and other topics. More information on...

New Dept. of Labor wage rules not good for agriculture

By now most Louisiana farmers know that the United States Department of Labor (DOL) has implemented a change in the way that wages are set for the H-2A guest worker program. It means an unprecedented wage increase for certain groups of guest workers. In some...

Louisiana Sugarcane Producer Urges Members of Congress to Support American Farmers and Workers for Food Security

April 27, 2023
Sam Irwin
American Sugar Alliance Press Release, ASCL Press Release

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 lawmakers to maintain “an adequate economic safety net for...

Priority for the American Sugar Cane League

Over the past ten years, sugarcane acreage has rapidly expanded, especially in Vermillion Parish in the western cane belt and Pointe Coupee, Avoyelles and Rapides in the north. Pointe Coupee now has more than 70,000 acres in production, when just ten years ago parish acreage...

Land Leveling 2023

March 31, 2023
Sam Irwin
Video

Videographer Al Maclean gives us this aerial shot of land leveling operations in Louisiana sugarcane fields.

Herbicide Resistance in Louisiana Sugar Production

March 30, 2023
Sam Irwin
Podcast, Video

Ali Wright, USDA research agronomist in Houma, La., discusses herbicide resistance in Louisiana sugarcane production at the 2023 winter meeting of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists and the American Sugar Cane League. Herbicide Resistance in Louisiana Sugar Production TweetFacebook

AgCenter Audubon Sugar Institute faculty win awards at international conference

March 30, 2023
Sam Irwin
Audubon Sugar Institute, LSU AgCenterMedia News Report

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 merit, said...

Erath cane farmer among USDA appointees to the Louisiana Farm Service Agency State Committee

March 17, 2023
Sam Irwin
USDA

Brian Guidry The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced the new appointees who will serve on the Louisiana USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) state committee. Among them was sugarcane farmer Brian Guidry of Erath. Members of the FSA state committee are appointed by Secretary of...

2022 Christmas Freeze Factory Perspective

March 15, 2023
Sam Irwin
American Society of Sugarcane Technologists (ASSCT), Podcast, Video

A summation of the research by Harold Birkett & Jeanie Stein of the Audubon Sugar Institute on the Christmas freeze of 2022 and how it affected sugar production in Louisiana sugar mills. Birkett made the presentation at the winter meeting of the American Society of...

Microbial Contaminants Found in Louisiana Sugarcane Factories

March 2, 2023
Sam Irwin
Podcast, Video

Gillian Bruni of the USDA-ARS, SRRC in New Orleans presents the research done by her and Qi Yunci, Thomas Klasson, Isabel Lima and Evan Terrell at the winter meeting of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists in Baton Rouge. Microbial Contaminants Found in Louisiana...

2022 Christmas Freeze – Field Perspective

February 28, 2023
Sam Irwin
Podcast, Video

LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Specialist Ken Gravois discusses the 2022 Christmas freeze event at the 2023 winter meeting of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists and American Sugar Cane League in Baton Rouge. 2022 Christmas Freeze - Field Perspective TweetFacebook

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