One may think that a lack of new varieties being announced at the annual LSU AgCenter sugarcane field day would mean that research efforts have slowed down, but the opposite is true. It means the science is working.
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The United States Department of Agriculture’s Sugarcane Research Unit in Houma hosted a June 1, 2023 sugarcane field day at its Schriever farm to highlight its centennial of cane research activities in Louisiana.
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A first of a kind fuel facility broke ground in the "Sugar City."
Converting sugar cane bagasse into fuel pellets. This will be the first facility in North America to use bagasse, a byproduct of sugarcane production. The pellets can be used as an alternative to coal and other fuel sources.
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Sugarcane varieties are the lifeblood of the Louisiana sugar industry. Therefore, variety selection is one of the most important decisions on the farm. This decision has long term consequences. The goal is to maximize profitability on every acre of the farm for each year of a long crop cycle.
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A field day highlighting soil fertility and Best Management Practices in sugarcane will be held July 13, 2023, at the Keith Dugas Farm, 5585 LA-1 in Napoleonville.
Registration begins at 8:30 AM and lunch will be provided.
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The Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival in New Iberia made a big announcement yesterday, the entertainment lineup for this year's festivities.
Once again organizers have put together another great mix of local and regional talent over two days of the festival.
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A group of more than 100 sugarcane growers, LSU AgCenter researchers and other interested parties assembled at Joby Beaud’s barn in the LaBarre community north of New Roads to hear the latest about new cane variety developments, weed control and other topics.
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Delta Biofuel has announced a $100 million final investment decision for the construction and start up of a full-scale renewable fuel production facility in Iberia Parish that will convert sugarcane waste into feedstock for low-emissions energy generation.
The company is expected to create 126 new direct jobs with an average salary of $62,500. Louisiana Economic Development estimates the project will result in an additional 149 indirect jobs, for a total 275 new jobs in the Acadiana region.
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A Napoleonville Louisiana company is making headlines these days for taking something that was once a waste product generated by Louisiana's sugarcane industry and turning it into a food supplement for cattlemen and ranchers around the nation. Impact Fusion International says its products that are made with sugarcane waste known as bagasse actually enhance the essential vitamins and nutrients that both beef and dairy cattle need to maintain good health.
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Patrick Frischhertz, a sugarcane grower from Plaquemine, Louisiana testified before the House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit on Wednesday, April 26.
Speaking on behalf of the American Sugar Alliance, Frischhertz called on lawmakers to maintain “an adequate economic safety net for American sugarcane and sugarbeet farmers.”
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Patrick Frischhertz, a sugarcane grower from Plaquemine, Louisiana testified before the House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit. He thanked Chairman Austin Scott (R-GA-8) and Ranking Member Shontel Brown (D-OH-11) for listening to the needs of American producers as they craft the next Farm Bill.
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Sustainability means producing sugarcane in a manner that is economically profitable while being a good neighbor to both the local community and environment. The benefit to society is feeding the world without exploiting natural and human resources.
The Louisiana sugar industry is accomplishing this today.
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Over the past ten years, sugarcane acreage has rapidly expanded, especially in Vermillion Parish in the western cane belt and Pointe Coupee, Avoyelles and Rapides in the north. Pointe Coupee now has more than 70,000 acres in production, when just ten years ago parish acreage was only 43,000. That’s a 62 percent increase.
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Last month the faculty of the LSU AgCenter Audubon Sugar Institute won multiple awards and honors at the 31st International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Congress in Hyderabad, India.
Awards can act as a barometer and prove that the institute’s work has merit, said Gillian Eggleston, director of the institute, who presented research findings and received a prestigious honor at the conference.
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For over 200 years in the United States, sugar cane field burning has been a tool that farmers use in the pre-harvest season to remove the tops of the sugar cane plant. However, the smoke from that burning can cause fog in the air, which leads to low visibility along roads and highways. This has been enough of a problem to cause road accidents, and in Louisiana, it has even caused some fatalities.
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