With fluctuating temperatures and freezing conditions ahead, sugarcane farmers are concerned about their crop's future. Get ...

Hugh Andre walked a small portion of his 10,000 acres of sugar cane in Iberia Parish. He crouched down and began digging away at the dirt and pulling up the remnants of older canes. "Do I think ...

After the cutters went on strike in 1887, the state militia and white vigilantes retaliated by killing about 60 suspected ...

After COVID began to wind down, Denais felt the call to return to Louisiana. He enrolled at ... help with ripener and spot applications in sugar cane, Price said. Ripeners, which signal to sugar ...

Most of you are probably familiar with Lafayette by now, but just down the Bayou Teche sits the second largest and one of the ...

Only two states in the U.S.—Florida and Louisiana—grow sugarcane, says Gaine. Granulated sugar, also known as table sugar, is ...

Before the sugar cane can be crushed in the mill, the canes have to be deprived of their leaves, and this is now done by hand. The invention we are about to describe is intended to supersede the ...