'When most people think of sugar cane, all they've ever seen is the hybrid cane, which looks like a big grass,' Noa says. 'A lot of the heirloom varieties are banded, so they're striped with colors ...

When growing sugar beets in your garden, patience is the key because it can take around 80 to 100 days for them to reach ...

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.

But sugar production and consumption endured. The German inventor Karl Franz Achard developed an industrial process for extracting sucrose from beet roots instead of sugar cane.

Snow protected sugar cane roots, but strawberries and winter pastures took a hit. No major livestock losses have been reported, though farmers face rising feed costs. The freeze may have killed ...

The snow acted as an insulator, said LSU AgCenter sugar cane specialist Kenneth Gravois. That insulating layer kept the ground from dropping below freezing and damaging the cane's root system. +2 ...