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 ...

"Down South we are so fortunate we usually catch showers coming off the bay, but that has not happened this year. I mean it's relentless." ERATH, La. — It has been a hard year of extreme heat and ...

The practice of cutting off the tough outer husks of sugar cane stalks as an alternative to burning them off in pre-harvest fires has been adopted almost everywhere the crop is grown. Known as "green ...

LaSuCa’s sugarcane processing season officially wrapped up, surpassing early projections and producing the largest crop in ...

Join Thanh as he shares his experiences of living two years alone in the forest of a remote rural area in the mountainous ...

YOUNGSVILLE, La. (KLFY) – Harvest season for sugarcane farmers has just begun across Louisiana, and farmers are expecting a good season. With tractor trailers and combine harvesters busy at work.

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 ...