A vintage sugarcane planting machine — one of 154 made by the Louisianan whose invention ended cane-planting's back-breaking hand labor — has been brought back home to Ascension Parish, where it was ...

DONALDSONVILLE, La. (BRPROUD) – The River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville holds important pieces of Louisiana history. The organization maintains a former Rosenwald school and one of ...

From the sugar cane fields of the St. Louis Planting Company in Plaquemine to the Cora Texas Manufacturing Company in White Castle the process of refining sugar in the state has Louisiana as America's ...

Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most important economic food and energy crops. Its soaring stalks ...

The sugar cane industry, while producing a $4.2 billion annual economic impact in Louisiana, creates tons of waste product every year. What to do with that waste has long been a problem for sugar ...

The relatively dry weather forecast this week was exactly what sugar-cane farmers needed. The planting season has been “very rough,” according to Thibodaux-based American Sugar Cane League Senior ...

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - The relatively dry weather forecast this week is exactly what sugar cane farmers need. American Sugar Cane League Senior Agronomist Herman Waguespack (WAG’-uh-spak) tells The ...