A Sugarcane Experiment in Louisiana, Years in the Making, Released This Month for Farmers

By Ellyn Couvillion, The Advocate, Baton Rouge

ST. GABRIEL — In a sense, two new sugar cane varieties announced at a public gathering this week were more than a century years in the making. The crossbred cane, developed at LSU's sugar research station in St. Gabriel and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's station in Houma, started as experimental seedlings among thousands of others years ago.