Grinding season began this week for Lafourche Sugars, and it’s a race to turn 1 million tons of cane into sweet crystals. The mill started up Monday Oct. 7, and for the next 100 days, Lafourche Sugars ...

HOUMA, La. (AP) — Hurricane Isaac’s winds paired with recent rains made a rough start for this year’s sugar-cane grinding season. But industry officials are optimistic that weather will improve this ...

Nov. 11—TIFTON, Ga. — From the mule-powered sugar cane mill to the smell of syrup cooking, visitors will become immersed in the days of old in South Georgia on Nov. 20 at the annual cane grinding and ...

The cane grinding began when a determined mule named Molly, all 15 hands of her, commenced ambling in a circle to pull a belt that powered a machine that spat out brown juice. “Here is what you need ...

DENMARK — The Nubbin Ridge Road home of Henry and Benny Lynn Nicholson, just west of Denmark, looked too new to be the setting for a sugar cane grinding the day after Thanksgiving. Nicholson pointed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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As I write this, I’m gasping for air. I can’t breathe. I have asthma. And I have an eye condition that prevents me from using steroids to control it. Sugar cane grinding has started and farmers are ...

A few years ago, Mary Guarisco started noticing mountains of bagasse, the crop residue left after sugar cane is crushed, piling up at Alma Plantation down the road from her house. “They’ve almost ...