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 ...

Sugarcane farmers across Acadiana are celebrating a bountiful harvest this year. Thanks to plentiful rain over the summer, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's sugarcane harvest season in Acadiana, a time of celebration but also a call for caution on the roadways. As cane trucks ...

In the early 1980s, I was employed at McBryde Sugar Co., Kauai as a haul cane truck driver assigned to one of three sugarcane harvesting gangs. These gangs worked around the clock in three shifts, ...

Dry weather at planting time is one reason Louisiana‘s recent sugar cane harvest is expected to set a record at almost 2 million tons of sugar once grinding of cane is completed, LSU AgCenter ...