A valuable sugar-cane harvester has been destroyed and its operator left with a leg injury after a fire just off the Bruce ...

At Gonsoulin Farms in Iberia Parish, it’s business as usual. With about a quarter of their crop already processed, owner and operator Ricky Gonsoulin says things are looking strong so far.

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 ...

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 ...

This shift creates more profits for sugar growers and will be better for environmental health, as organic sugar must be green ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sugar Cane farmer Eddie Lewis said things are looking up this fall. “Harvest season is definitely a time that we look forward to,” said Lewis. “We try to reap the seeds that we planted years back.” ...

A massive clean up effort is underway after a truck carrying sugar cane spilt tonnes of its load at a busy Cairns intersection.

Florida’s largest sugar companies say cane burning is safe and can't be stopped without economic harm. But Brazil has successfully transitioned away from the controversial practice, and experts there ...