L AFAYETTE — Stacey Judice remembers the roar and towering flames of the burning sugar cane just a few feet from the wooden fence around the Brock Pointe subdivision where ...

LAFAYETTE — Stacey Judice remembers the roar and towering flames of the burning sugar cane just a few feet from her Carencro home. The sight of burning fields marks the cane harvest season in south ...

Typically, we don't burn rice fields anymore unless that field is going to sugar cane or planned for pasture." The vast majority of sugar cane farmers in Louisiana continue to practice field burning.

According to KATC Channel 3 in Lafayette, LA on December 17, 2013 , thick plumes of smoke are visible for miles around Acadiana (the mostly French region of Louisiana in the southern part of the ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn about the dangers posed by sugar cane field burning and hear from one nonprofit about their research into alternatives. Plus, we hear about the findings ...

Subscriber Exclusive: Glades residents left behind: Nikki Fried’s ‘changes’ to cane burning served only Big Sugar Sugar cane fire pollution kills up to three South Floridians yearly, study finds ...

The practice of burning sugarcane fields has been largely discontinued throughout the world because of concerns about air pollution, but farmers still do it in Florida’s main sugar-producing ...

Sugar cane burning preceded the birth of all of us and is an essential part of production. It should not be stopped. What should be stopped is the unfettered urbanization of our agrarian island.

Typically, we don't burn rice fields anymore unless that field is going to sugar cane or planned for pasture." The vast majority of sugar cane farmers in Louisiana continue to practice field burning.