This week’s Fresh Take also looks at the fate of spoiled USAID provisions, an upcoming Q&A on MAHA and the food industry, how ...

President Trump is advocating for Coca-Cola to switch to using real cane sugar, a move that could benefit Louisiana's sugar industry.

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 ...

In Louisiana, the value of the crop in 2022 is worth $1,436,000,000 with more than 20 parishes producing sugar cane, including Lafayette. The Sugar Cane festival was born in 1937 by Charles Stevenson.

Transport trucks full of harvested sugar cane line up to be unloaded at the Cora Texas Sugar Mill on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in White Castle, Louisiana. STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON ...

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 ...

The cane could be hurt by a cold snap, ruining the sugar content. “The ideal window would be 100 days, to be out before the hard freeze threat,” Broussard said.

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 ...

Construction is set to begin on a $70 million Louisiana plant that will turn sugar cane bagasse into fuel pellets. The plant is projected to create 340,000 metric tons of fuel pellets annually.

Transport trucks full of harvested sugar cane line up to be unloaded at the Cora Texas Sugar Mill on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in White Castle, Louisiana. STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON ...