Louisiana is the largest sugar cane producer in the country. Last year, farmers and mills here produced more than 2 million tons of raw sugar, according to the American Sugar Cane League.

Louisiana sugar cane production is booming, but producers say a new farm bill is needed. ... and lets mills invest in equipment. Sugar futures are up about 53% since January 2014.

A New York company will invest $312 million for construction of 10 biorefineries designed to turn Louisiana sugar cane waste into fuel pellets for global power companies, officials said Monday ...

Louisiana sugar mill turns power company into customer. By John Snell. Published: Dec. 13, 2012 at 12:13 AM CST | Updated: Dec. 13, 2012 at 12:38 AM CST ... "Sugar cane dates back to 8 BC." ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIBODAUX — Caldwell Plantation Road is a poorly maintained gravel path off La. 308 that sees little traffic ... The closure left Lafourche Parish with only two sugar-cane mills, ...

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.

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 ...

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana lost more than $71 million in taxpayer money on a failed sugar cane mill in Jefferson Davis Parish that was sold for scrap late last year, according to an audit released today.

Louisiana farmers set a record this year for the amount of sugar per ton of cane harvested, but it's not a record harvest, says LSU AgCenter sugar specialist Kenneth Gravois.

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 ...