Louisiana's sugar cane production is booming. Despite a severe drought, the state's 2023 harvest produced more than 1.8 million tons of sugar.The number of acres of sugar cane harvested has been ...

Farmers planted 20,000 more acres of sugar cane this year, for a total of 532,000 acres. Some areas of Louisiana have fared better; areas east of the Atchafalaya Basin have seen more rain and ...

LAFAYETTE, LA — “We’re growing cane at the northernmost latitude here in Louisiana”, Wilson Judice, an agronomist for the American Sugarcane League, told me after walking ou… ...

Farmers and industry experts say Louisiana’s 2015 sugar cane harvest was a wet, muddy mess. The state’s 11 sugar mills finished grinding for the season last week.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - One of the world's northernmost sugarcane fields has been planted at a Louisiana State University research station in central Louisiana. The LSU AgCenter is looking into how ...

Last year farmers made about $0.20 a pound, now they are looking at anywhere between $.030 and $0.35 a pound, the two estimated. But without rain the cane won't produce any sugar, and the high ...

WASHINGTON— Vermilion Parish sugar cane farmer Kyle Zenon put on his Sunday church suit to haunt the halls of Capitol Hill in a quest to push a gridlocked Congress into passing the stalled Farm ...

NEW IBERIA, La. (KLFY) — In honor of what should be the Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival week, organizers want to see New Iberia homes and businesses decorated to show support for our farmers as ...

The inside of a sugar cane stalk shows the dark bands resulting from chemicals used in harvesting on a sugar cane farm in Morganza, La, on Thursday, Nov. 21. PHOTO BY MORGAN WERTHER ...

Fourth-generation sugar cane farmer Wenceslaus “June” Provost Jr., 46, and his wife, Angie Provost, 44, still own a home on what’s left of the 24 acres June’s grandfather bought from a ...

Louisiana’s 2015 sugar cane harvest was a wet, muddy mess, farmers and industry experts said late last week, as the last of the state’s 11 sugar mills were finishing up ...