Sunshine Bridge closure takes a toll on sugarcane farmers
WAFB-TV reporter Cheryl Mercedes report from St. James Parish that the Sunshine Bridge closure will have an effect on the sugarcane industry. WATCH THE REPORT.
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There's also a link to The Sugar Bulletin, the League's monthly magazine, and its advertising rates and subscrption information. The Sugar Bulletin has been published since 1922 and you can research the sugar industry archives by clicking here or in the drop list to the left. The American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists archives are also available.
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Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: League Research Director’s Early Crop Report (2
Herman Waguespack, the American Sugar Cane League's Director of Research, delivered this September 27, 2018 crop report at the League's board of director's meeting. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: The 77th King Sucrose, Donald Segura
Donald Segura, chosen as the 77th King Sucrose of the Louisiana Sugarcane Festival, talks about his farming life and what sugarcane means to him, his family and his community in the Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast. (PHOTO: Donald Segura and his…
This Week in Louisiana Agriculture: Planting Sugarcane
Reporter Karl Wiggers of This Week in Louisiana Agriculture filed this great story on sugarcane planting season.
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Tubana on nitrogen use efficiency
Dr. Brenda Tubana of the LSU AgCenter talks about using remote sensing technology to improve nitorgen use efficiency in sugarcane. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Growing demand for guest workers has landscape, seafood and sugarcane concerned
Reporter Bryn Stole of The Advocate's Washington D.C.desk filed this story on guest laborers who are only needed seasonally. Photo: Local laborers are difficult to find for seasonal labor in sugarcane, seafood processing and landscaping industries. Sugarcane millers rely on…
Photo Gallery from 2018 Iberia, St. Mary Vermilion Sugar Field Days
The 2018 Iberia, St. Mary Vermilion LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Field Day. SEE THE PHOTOS
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Cover crops in a sugarcane rotation
Taylor Blanchard, a young sugarcane producer from the Iberia, St. Mary area. Taylor spoke to a gathered group of farmers and researchers at the July 2018 LSU AgCenter Sugarcane Field Day. Taylor talked about the benefits of planting cover crops…
Cover crops featured at sugarcane field day
(07/27/18) JEANERETTE, La. — An LSU AgCenter field day for Iberia, St. Mary and Vermilion parish sugarcane farmers on July 26 placed an emphasis on methods of improving soil health.Story by Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter Rogers Leonard, LSU AgCenter associate…
Sugarcane crop doing well
(07/25/18) ST. MARTINVILLE, La. — With planting just around the corner, sugarcane farmers gathered on July 20 at the LSU AgCenter St. Martin Parish sugarcane field day to hear about research and new technology to help with their crop. AgCenter…
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Blanchard on Heat Treating Seedcane
On July 26, 2018,the Sugarcane News traveled to the LSU AgCenter St. Mary, Iberia and Vermilion Parish sugarcane field day and recorded farmer Lane Blanchard speaking on heat treating seed cane. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Louisiana Sugarcane News Podcast: Orgeron on Ripeners: Pontiff on L 11-183
Dr. Al Orgeron and Dr Michael Pontif of the LSU AgCenter spoke at the Assumption Parish Sugarcane Field Day on their research. HEAR THE PODCAST
