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.
Amid inclement weather, weaker sugar recovery and less than ideal field conditions, Louisiana's sugar cane crop and its farmers are holding strong and may even break last year's harvesting record.Specialists with the LSU Agricultural Center are predicting a yield of more than 16 million tons of sugar, despite sugar recovery from each ton of cane being down from 2017…
Reporter Karl Wiggers of This Week in Louisiana Agriculture filed this great story on sugarcane planting season.
(07/27/18) JEANERETTE, La. — An LSU AgCenter field day for Iberia, St. Mary and Vermilion parish sugarcane farmers on July 26 placed an emphasis on methods of improving soil health.Story by Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter Rogers Leonard, LSU AgCenter associate vice president, said the importance of soil health is being stressed to help farmers increase their production, and cover…
The LSU College of Agriculture is excited to launch the second year of the LSU Agriculture Mentoring Program. Last year LSU started the program with 17 mentors and they are looking forward to expanding this program to connect with more students with alumni and supporters.The pruposeof the mentoring program is to provide current students with networking opportunities to help…
After a lengthy search, the LSU AgCenter has named Gillian Eggleston director of the Audubon Sugar Institute. The institute, located in St. Gabriel, is a research facility that also offers educational programs for the sugarcane industry. Eggleston will begin her new role on June 1. She previously was a research chemist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research…
With British ships blocking Caribbean trade routes, Napoleon Bonaparte found France facing a difficult problem. Sugar, which had become a staple of high-society diet, was in short supply. When French scientists gave Napoleon sugar made from beets, he directed farmers to plant a massive crop and provided government money to help build processing factories. The large-scale production invented in…
Like sugar cane in the late fall, the fate of U.S. farmers facing the threat of increased sugar imports is blowing in the wind in Washington.The 2018 Farm Bill became a political football once again Friday when the House voted it down, 198-213. The defeat, orchestrated by the Republican Freedom Caucus when it didn’t get its way, was felt…
In an area considered the northernmost point in the world for growing sugarcane, the Bain family has been raising the sweet stuff for four generations. "We are doing the impossible here,” said Sterling Bain Jr., the oldest sibling in the Bain family. "There shouldn’t be cane this far north.”Story by Tobie Blanchard, LSU AgCenter Bain said his family can…
The West Baton Rouge Museum is pleased to announce a new exhibition entitled Rural Engineuity which will open on May 19th and run through August 5th, 2018. This exhibition highlights the innovations and people who transformed sugarcane farming and processing in the rural south. The tractor has been called the most important agricultural advancement of our time and its…
Representatives from Louisiana sugarcane mills heard results from researchers at the LSU AgCenter Audubon Sugar Institute during a factory operations seminar at the AgCenter Sugar Research Station on April 26. Each spring, researchers from the institute provide the sugar mill management teams their latest research findings that are helpful in the mills’ operations. Photo: Dr. Sonny Viator, LSU AgCenter…
Louisiana’s Congressional delegation helped defeat a farm bill amendment that would have crippled the state’s sugarcane industry, said Charles Schudmak, president of the American Sugar Cane League. "The so-called Sugar Policy Modernization Act, also known in Louisiana as the Sugar Farmer Bankruptcy Bill was defeated in the House of Representatives yesterday by a wide 141 vote margin,” Schudmak said…
Louisiana's 11 raw sugar factories, its two sugar refineries and the American Sugar Cane League today joined hundreds of other agricultural interests in a broad coalition letter to Congressional members urging them to reject any farm bill amendments that could hurt America's farming families, said League president Charles Schudmak. In addition to the League, the American Farm Bureau Federation,…
