Louisiana Sugarcane Farmers Hopeful After Trump Claims Coca-Cola Will Switch To Real Sugar

By Georgia Peck

WAFB-TV 9

Sugar cane farmers and agriculture experts from Louisiana say President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that Coca-Cola had agreed to switch from using artificial sweeteners to real cane sugar could be good news for the industry.

Patrick Frischertz is a farmer at St. Louis Planting, a sugar cane and soybean farm in Plaquemine. He is getting everything ready at the farm, which has been operated by the same family for eight generations, for the start of sugar cane planting season.

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