HOUMA, La. (AP) — Hurricane Isaac’s winds paired with recent rains made a rough start for this year’s sugar-cane grinding season. But industry officials are optimistic that weather will improve this ...

Jun. 3—WASHINGTON — Vermilion Parish sugar cane farmer Kyle Zenon put on his Sunday church suit to haunt the halls of Capitol Hill in a quest to push a gridlocked Congress into passing the stalled ...

Louisiana's sugar cane production is booming. Despite a severe drought, the state's 2023 harvest produced more than 1.8 million tons of sugar. The number of acres of sugar cane harvested has been ...

New Iberia, Louisiana, where sugar cane fields stretch to the bayou, smells like wet earth and flowers in late August. Fourth-generation sugar cane farmer Wenceslaus “June” Provost Jr., 46, and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eddie Lewis III pulls up to his Youngsville farm in a large black Ford pickup truck, handing out gallon containers of water to his workers preparing land to plant the 2024 sugar cane crop. He’s ...

Nearly 9% of the U.S. population is now taking GLP-1s like Wegovy and Ozempic, and they are spending 6% less on candy and chocolate and 10% less on sweet bakery items, according to a study by OC&C ...

The clock is ticking amid rising anxiety as Kenyans await the fall of the hammer in the anticipated privatisation of the sugar industry. Farmers are gnashing their teeth as they ponder the ...

Robison Wandera an agronomist in Western Kenya demonstrates to farmers on the methods to plant their sugarcane for maximised yields. [Michael Mute, Standard] Sugarcane farmers in Western have welcomed ...

WASHINGTON — Vermilion Parish sugar cane farmer Kyle Zenon put on his Sunday church suit to haunt the halls of Capitol Hill in a quest to push a gridlocked Congress into passing the stalled Farm Bill.