Sugarcane Farmers are Battling Muddy Conditions

By Eric Zernich, KATC-TV 3, Lafayette

For the past few months, sugarcane farmers have been busy harvesting their crops to get it off to the mill. And, with the number of sugarcane acreage increasing in Acadiana, local sugarcane plants have been processing a near record amount of product again this fall. However, not all the product that they process is pure sugarcane.