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 out of a truck ...

While Louisiana is the second largest sugar cane producer in the United States, the state's yield -- projected at 14.8 million tons of crop and 1.67 million tons of raw sugar for 2012 -- is a ...

Simon, at the American Sugar Cane League, said all 11 sugar mills in Louisiana use bagasse as fuel. “We are in essence biorefineries. We grow our own energy,” he said.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — An agriculture expert says this year’s Louisiana sugarcane crop had great growing conditions although Hurricane Francine’s strong winds damaged some crops. An ...

In Louisiana and Florida, where sugar cane has a long history of commercial production, heirloom varieties come in a rainbow of colors: Georgia Red, Louisiana Purple, a green-yellow variety called ...

While farmers can grow more cane on the same land, sugar mills are doing even more with less. That 100 percent increase in production from 1982 to 2012 has been carried out by half the number of ...

Simon, at the American Sugar Cane League, said all 11 sugar mills in Louisiana use bagasse as fuel. “We are in essence biorefineries. We grow our own energy,” he said.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s sugar cane farmers struggled with extreme weather and flooding this year, which could make a dent in the nation’s sugar crop. Farmers grappled with rain ...

Like Louisiana, our state of Mississippi has a sugar-growing history but cotton was always agriculture king. Today, 22 states still grow sugar cane, with four producing the most: Florida ...

Louisiana’s 2015 sugar cane harvest was a wet, ... A difficult growing season for Louisiana cane farmers combined with a disastrous year for sugar beet farmers in the Upper Midwest has prompted ...

With an estimated annual economic impact of $2 billion to the state, tariff uncertainty is a growing concern. Fortunately, Gravois says Louisiana’s sugar cane industry shouldn’t suffer much ...

Louisiana’s sugar cane farmers struggled with extreme weather and flooding this year, which could make a dent in the nation’s sugar crop. Farmers grappled with rain that fell day after day during a ...