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Coca-Cola’s Cane Sugar Switch Could Rejuvenate Louisiana Farms
The switch by Coca-Cola from corn syrup to cane sugar is also supported by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr who has voiced concerns about the use of the corn syrup and the health impacts of that ingredient. Coke products sold in other countries like the UK and Mexico already use cane sugar.
Louisiana's sugar cane production is booming. Despite a severe drought, the state's 2023 harvest produced more than 1.8 million tons of sugar.The number of acres of sugar cane harvested has ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Louisiana restores Camp Beauregard name to National Guard base honoring Confederate general’s father
The Louisiana National Guard has returned the name Camp Beauregard to its military training center in Pineville, honoring a state militia veteran from the War of 1812 instead of the Confederate ...
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