To date, 2022 has been a good year for sugarcane production in Louisiana. The dry grinding season of 2021 made for a good start for this year’s sugarcane crop. A dry spring and early summer helped farmers conduct timely field operations.
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We are planning a fabulous dinner to celebrate these Notables at Antoine’s Restaurant Saturday, July 23 at 6:30PM. This restaurant is one of the Grand Dames of the New Orleans famous historical restaurants.
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A lifelong sugar cane farmer in his first stint at politics, St. James Parish President Pete Dufresne has been an ardent backer of new industrial projects as needed job producers and tax revenue generators for his rural, blue-collar parish between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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The United States wants to be a leader in clean energy and energy providers are looking at alternate ways to deliver power to their customers.
Instead of drilling in the ground searching for oil, the energy industry is taking a hard look at the surface of the earth for clean fuel.
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The LSU AgCenter will hold its sugarcane field day Wednesday, July 20, at the Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel.
The field day will begin with a field tour covering multiple topics from AgCenter specialists.
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The LSU AgCenter will hold its sugarcane field day Wednesday, July 20, at the Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel.
The field day will begin with a field tour covering multiple topics from AgCenter specialists,
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As July rolls around, Louisiana’s sugarcane “grand growth stage” is well underway.
In tropical regions, the grand growth stage can last for five to eight months, but Louisiana’s sugar producers don’t have the luxury of a long growing season.
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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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