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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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….
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…