Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season. For ...

Reed St. Pierre has watched as mud from heavy rains worked his trucks so hard that they broke down. He has seen water flood his LaPlace sugar cane fields, and a typical day's work now leaves his boots ...

Patrick Frischhertz, a sugarcane farmer in Plaquemine, finished harvesting his sugarcane on Jan. 12 and breathed a huge sigh of relief. “I feel very blessed to be able to cut all the cane out of our ...

It’s sugar cane harvesting season and you may see moving equipment on the roadways hauling sugar cane. KATC has pulled together what you need to know when driving on the roadway this harvesting season ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY)— Sugar cane farmer Eddie Lewis talks about this year’s harvest and what he is expecting following the severe drought Louisiana has been in. He said it does not look good, but he was ...

The recent sugar cane harvest in Louisiana is going to set a record with almost 2 million tons, LSU AgCenter officials said. The harvest that began in September and continued for almost 125 straight ...

Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most important economic food and energy crops. Its soaring stalks ...

Raw sugar futures held steady in New York as traders mull rising output from India against estimates that mills in top grower ...

This year, reporters at The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica investigated the impact of sugar cane burning in Florida. The harvesting practice helps produce more than half of America’s cane sugar, but ...

POINTE COUPEE PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Farmers are optimistic this year, saying it could be another record-breaking year for the state’s sugar cane industry. “Weather has been good so far although ...