Grinding season began this week for Lafourche Sugars, and it’s a race to turn 1 million tons of cane into sweet crystals. The mill started up Monday Oct. 7, and for the next 100 days, Lafourche Sugars ...

Although some sugar mills in the state will continue grinding into January, local mills have shut it down for the season. Grinding began the last week of September at Raceland Raw Sugar and the first ...

Frequent rain and muddy conditions made the closing sugar-cane harvesting season a rough one for area farmers and mill operators. Bobby Gravois, a sugar-cane farmer in Thibodaux, tells The Daily Comet ...

Some things can’t be believed until experienced. Since I grew up in Mississippi and have spent the past 18 years in Louisiana, I thought I was prepared for the heat of the equator in July. I was wrong ...

As sugar water spilled out of the sugar cane grinder, Brenda Nobles gazed over Conway’s Living History Farm, remembering what it was like when her own family ground sugar cane to make syrup decades ...

Mathias Machika using his manual local made cane crashing jaggery machine in Imamure village Ikolomani constituency Kakamega county. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] Mathias Machika uses a giant bull tied ...