Louisiana’s sugarcane farmers are among the most efficient in the world so why do they need trade protection? Because the world sugar market is a dump market. Read this story from The Hill about the bold “zero for zero” trade policy proposal. The…
It was a sad day when Hawaii’s sugarcane industry closed up shop last year. Why did Hawaii go out of business? For many reasons but low prices had a lot to do with it. Here is a video report on the United States sugarcane industry from Iowa Public…
Louisiana’s sugarcane industry is unique. It produces a top flight sugar harvest that is the envy of the world but if the the state’s mills cannot get the guest workers it needs to make raw sugar from cane juice our 221-year-old industry may be in…
Folks who are prone to quoting old adages like “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” often incorrectly attribute the famous saying to Mark Twain, but it was Twain’s contemporary, writer Charles Dudley Warner, who coined the…
Gary Gravois, 51, a third-generation sugarcane farmer in Louisiana’s Assumption Parish, cultivates nearly 2100-acres along with his older brother, Laurent. They are efficient family farmers and believe they can compete with any cane farmer in the world….
A fifth-generation Louisiana sugarcane farmer and the president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association were among the speakers invited to address legislators, Administration officials, and reporters about the upcoming Farm Bill debate at the Farm Bill Summit in…
Twenty-six farmers and others who work in the Louisiana sugar industry have begun a six-month program that will help them learn about important scientific and economic topics. The LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Production School held its first session on March 16 and 17 on…
The American Sugar Cane League selected a White Castle sugar mill operator as president of the organization at the group’s annual meeting at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel February 7. Charles Schudmak of Cora Texas Manufacturing Company will serve two years as…
Courtney Gaine believes in her product so much she eats M&Ms for breakfast. Gaine is the president and CEO of the Sugar Association, a trade association based in Washington, D.C. Peculiar diet aside, she nonetheless looks fit enough to step back on the basketball…