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 ...
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 ...
PAINCOURTVILLE, La. - Drought conditions have not improved, but the state is easing off the burn ban. It's coming just in time for one of the state's largest crops, sugar cane. There are more than 500 ...
The affection Ken Schmidt, Product Performance Manager for Case IH, has for the machine he calls “the Tina Turner of sugar cane harvesters” is at once blindingly obvious and infectious. Ken positively ...
In October through December, it never fails that I end up behind a sugar cane truck on my way from Baton Rouge to visit my family in Morgan City. During my route, I drive through Port Allen, Brusly, ...
YOUNGSVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Hurricane Francine’s winds knocked over some sugarcane stalks but did not ruin the harvest for most Acadiana sugarcane farmers. Eddie Lewis III, a 6th generation sugarcane ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The SugarFest in West Baton Rouge celebrates 29 years of sugar cane harvest. Families gathered at one of the sweetest traditions in Louisiana, the annual SugarFest, on ...
Brazil is set to harvest a smaller-than-expected sugar cane crop in the season that starts next month, as a forecast for continued dry weather in the world’s largest producer threatens to hinder ...