A truck loaded with sugar cane heads south on LA-1, Friday, November 4, 2022, ... While the combine cuts the cane, a tractor with a wagon trails behind to catch the cut-up pieces.

A harvester from the St. Louis Planting Co. runs a row of sugar cane and dumps the cane stalks into a wagon that runs along side on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in Plaquemine, Louisiana.

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.

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 ...

R.L. Bret Allain II, a sugar cane farmer and Louisiana state senator said while his crops are not doing great this year, they are doing better than farmers farther west.

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 ...

The fall’s heavy rains hit the Louisiana sugar cane industry at just about the worst possible time, slowing down the harvesting process, reducing crop yields, knocking down thousands of acres ...

Louisiana sugarcane outlook brightens for now, but future uncertain Published: Oct. 20, 2012, 11:59 p.m. Louisiana's sugarcane crop appears to have suffered less damage from Hurricane Isaac than ...

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.

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - Frequent rain and muddy conditions made the closing sugar-cane harvesting season a rough one for area farmers and mill operators. Bobby Gravois, a sugar-cane farmer in ...

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 ...