Louisiana's sugar cane production is booming.But producers say costs are rising too, and a new farm bill with a stronger safety net is needed. At the American Sugar Cane League annual meeting ...

The Sugar Cane festival was born in 1937 by Charles Stevenson. The Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival Association said Stevenson was a native Californian that came to New Iberia, drank from the Bayou ...

Farmers planted 20,000 more acres of sugar cane this year, for a total of 532,000 acres. Some areas of Louisiana have fared better; areas east of the Atchafalaya Basin have seen more rain and ...

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 grinding for the season.

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 ...

A black 15-year-old boy was found dead in a sugar cane field days after he vanished in Louisiana, according to authorities who are probing his death as a homicide. The body of Quawan “Bobby ...

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 ...

The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once farmed corn and hunted deer. French explorer Louis ...

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.

Grinding season began this week for Lafourche Sugars, and it’s a race to turn a million tons of cane into sweet crystals.

Celebrate Louisiana's sweetest commodity at the Sugar Cane Festival this weekend in New Iberia. This three-day festival began Thursday and ends Sunday. The events include photo and art exhibits ...