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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BOURG, La. — Hurricane Delta has the potential to do a lot of damage to south Louisiana sugarcane fields. Farmers know when a storm hits, the crop damage could cost them a lot of money. Wallace ...
WEST PALM BEACH — Glades residents who want to end the sugar-cane burning they say pollutes their communities joined environmental activists Saturday in downtown West Palm Beach to push back against ...
Sugarcane trucks loaded with sugarcane from Nyando sugar belt camping outside West Kenya's Miwani weighbridge in Kisumu county on September 3, 2021. [Collins Oduor,Standard] Machinery breakdown at ...