sugarcane

A Louisiana company has developed a feed for cattle using sugarcane that produces healthy animals and does away with the stench of cow manure.

Sugarcane farmers do their best to make sure smoke and ash don't affect nearby populations but unfortunately keeping 100% of smoke and ash away from humans is impossible.

Louisiana farmers are worried that more than 60 hours of subfreezing temperatures will hurt next year's sugarcane crop and strawberry farmers are surveying crops and it appears 30 to 35% of the crop is lost.

Louisiana's sweetest crop is having maybe its sweetest year ever.

The U.S. brought a trade case against Mexico because they flooded our market with subsidized sugar.

The sugarcane grinding season has started. Be on the lookout for 'cane trucks on area roadways. Although it can be difficult, please be patient, because sugarcane is big business in Louisiana.

I don't know about you, but I noticed that some sugarcane seemed beaten down after the heavy rains that caused the catastrophic flooding last month.

Sugar subsidized by the Mexican government has cut the price of raw sugar in half since 2011.

Researchers in Louisiana and other states also are testing such hybrids as part of a $17.3 million U.S. Department of Energy project.

Ben Legendre, head of the Audubon Sugar Institute, in St. Gabriel, tells The Advocate Mexico exported 2 million tons of sugar into the U.S. in the past year.

We are a zero cost program to the government.

In this edition of "Not Necessarily The News," Tootie Landry goes to a sugarcane farm and takes one of the cane cutters for a spin!

Landry says he stands by his votes.

A billion dollars is pumped into the Louisiana economy by the sugar industry.

Orange rust spores have made their way to Louisiana due to the mild winter of 2011.

Louisiana industries that use foreign work might be seeing some higher labor costs.

Jim Simon, General Manager of the American Sugarcane League, joined Bernadette Lee and Ken Romero on "Mornings With Ken & Bernie" to talk about this year's crop and workers.