Sugarcane Fertility Update for 2023
Dr. Rich Johnson of the USDA/ARS in Houma reports on his collaborative work with Dr. Brenda Tubana of the LSU AgCenter at a grower meeting in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana in February 2023.
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Collaboration key to Louisiana sugarcane success
American Sugar Cane League director Jim Simon speaks at the 100th annual meeting of the American Sugar Cane League on February 7, 2023
Louisiana is the top sugarcane state for 2022
American Sugar Cane League director Jim Simon reported that the Louisiana sugarcane industry produced more than two million tons of raw sugar in 2022 for the first time ever and is now the number one cane sugar-producing state in the United States. Simon made his remarks at the 100th meeting of the American Sugar Cane League February 7 at…
Crushing Cane at a Louisiana Sugar Mill
Sugarcane is crushed by a series of rollers at a Louisiana sugarcane mill to extract the cane juice used to make sugar. Like these videos of the Louisiana sugarcane industry? Follow us on TikTok at louisianasugarcane.
Christmas freeze affects record sugarcane crop
Louisiana sugarcane farmers have produced a record amount of sugar this year, but three days of hard freezing temperatures at Christmas created issues for the crop still left in the field. LSU AgCenter correspondent Craig Gautreaux has this report from Iberia Parish. Video report by Craig Gautreaux
Bain sugarcane farm featured on TWILA
Sugarcane producer Will Bain's family farming operation was featured on This Week In Louisiana Agriculture. Here's the story from TWILA reporter Neil Melancon. Not far from the Dean Lee Research Station, sugarcane harvest is well underway. Will Bain and his family have more than 2,300 acres of sugarcane near Bunkie, Louisiana. This week, TWILA’s Neil Melancon travels there to…
How Louisiana Has Sweetened America for Two Centuries
Louisiana farmers are growing sugarcane on some of the same soil their ancestors did more than two centuries ago. The key to the resilience and success of Louisiana’s 450 cane farming families and 11 raw sugar mills is simple: “We take care of what Mother Nature has provided,” said Jim Simon, General Manager for the American Sugar Cane League…
What a treat! America’s sugar farmers keep Halloween sweet
This Halloween, Americans are estimated to spend a record $3 billion on Halloween candy for a second year in a row. Despite the inflationary rise of candy prices, the sugar in it still only accounts for a couple cents per treat. In fact, a recent study by the University of Tennessee confirmed that sugar prices are not the primary driver…
A year after Hurricane Ida, this year’s sugar-cane harvest is looking sweet in Terrebonne, Lafourche
Colin Campo of the Daily Comet interviewed two sugarcane farmers from the Lafourche-Terrebonne parish area to compare the 2021 crop ravaged by Hurricane Ida and what the 2022 looks like. Here's the beginning of his report. Sugar-cane farmers in Terrebonne and Lafourche are optimistic they will finish their ongoing harvest strong after last year put a hurting on their…
Sugarcane harvest underway
The 2022-23 Louisiana sugarcane harvest is in full swing now and most everyone in the industry is feeling optimistic for a good harvest. Sugarcane acreage increased again this year. In 2021, 469,000 acres were harvested but this season about 475,000 acres are expected to go to the state’s 11 sugar mills. This is the fifth straight year that cane…
National Real Sugar Day is October 14
National Real Sugar Day is October 14, and the Louisiana sugar industry invites you to celebrate real sugar. Sugar has been an important economic driver in Louisiana for many years, and as modern planting and harvesting techniques revolutionized the industry in the mid-1990s, we’re growing more sugarcane than ever before. Louisiana is where the American sugar industry began but…
Soil Testing
Dr. Franta Majs of the LSU AgCenter discusses the importance of soil testing in Louisiana sugarcane fields at the Sugarcane Model Farm in Napoleonville, La. September 22, 2022.
