Louisiana Sugar Cane Farmers Want a Stalemated Congress to Pass the Farm Bill

By Mark Ballard

The Advocate

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 Bill.

Though subsidies, loans, insurance and other measures handled in the Farm Bill are important to all farmers in Louisiana, it’s the legislation’s “sugar policy” that worries Zenon. 

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