As Louisiana’s sugarcane acreage expands, farmers and scientists are learning more about how the crop performs outside of its traditional growing area.
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In four decades as an agronomist with the American Sugar Cane League, Windell Jackson had a profound impact on the Louisiana sugarcane industry.
Jackson died in March at the age of 74. To honor his contributions to the industry, the League recently added $25,000 and Jackson’s name to an existing scholarship fund for LSU students.
The Lloyd Lauden/Windell Jackson Memorial Endowed Scholarship is available to College of Agriculture students. Preference is given to those from Louisiana’s sugarcane-growing region and those who have an interest in the sugarcane industry.
The fund was established in 1990 as the Lloyd Lauden Memorial Endowed Scholarship. Lauden, who also was an agronomist with the league, hired Jackson in 1973.
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The invasive Mexican rice borer (Eoreuma loftini) has become increasingly problematic in Louisiana in recent years and threatens both rice and sugarcane, the two most important crops in the southern part of the state.
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During the next several weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct two major mid-year surveys, the June Agricultural Survey and the June Area Survey.
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The West Baton Rouge Museum partners with Three Roll Estate to take a close look at the process of converting sugar from Alma Plantation to rum at the award winning Baton Rouge distillery.
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"Never have we seen inflation like this we have seen it spike a little but never seen it go this high in this span of time. Ricky Gonsoulin runs a Sugarcane farm in New Iberia that makes 16 million pounds of sugar a year.
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The League’s involvement in governmental relations has led to a strong domestic sugar policy and stable prices. The stable market has proved attractive to Louisiana farmers and the industry has seen unprecedented growth in acreage in Vermilion, Pointe Coupee, Avoyelles, Rapides, and Concordia parishes.
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Click for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that allow growers the opportunity to evaluate the changes that herbicide selection, unit price, application rates, and tillage have on total weed control program costs on a per-acre basis.
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The LSU AgCenter and the American Sugar Cane League sponsored an annual informational seminar on sugar factory operations at the AgCenter Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel on March 31.
In addition to an overview of the processing of the 2021 Louisiana sugarcane crop, a variety of other topics were discussed, said Gillian Eggleston, director of the Audubon Sugar Institute, which was founded in 1885.
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Windell Jackson, a retired agronomist with the American Sugar Cane League (ASCL), has died.
Windell retired in 2014 as the senior agronomist with the ASCL after 41 years of service.
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Fluctuating prices have growers looking for creative ways to manage weeds in sugarcane and identify any populations that may have built up a resistance to the current herbicides.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2021, which runs from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022.
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National Agriculture Day is an annual day to celebrate the American farmer. In America, we spend a smaller proportion of our household income on food than any other developed country. A safe, affordable food supply with amazing variety and unequaled distribution is something to celebrate.
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U.S. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) has secured $10 million in federal funding for the Louisiana-based U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Research Service Sugarcane Program. The funding will support the agricultural workforce and modernize sugarcane research to create efficiencies – yielding even greater results for one of Louisiana’s top agriculture products.
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Louisiana’s sugarcane growers and millers cast their eyes towards Washington D.C. as Dr. Rob Johansson, Director of Economics and Policy Analysis at the American Sugar Alliance (ASA), testified before the House Committee on Agriculture March 1 on the importance of supporting America’s sugar farmers, producers, and sugar supply chain by maintaining a strong U.S. sugar policy in the 2023 Farm Bill.
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