said the trucks just don't need to be covered. Since sugar cane is the last crop of the season to be harvested in Louisiana, farmers are mainly concerned that the crop gets to the mill as ...

It's that time of year again in Louisiana: the sugar cane harvest. And officials are warning drivers about cane trucks on the highways that will be delivering up to 100,000-pound loads daily and ...

This year, drought plagued Louisiana all summer ... processed crop to make a commodity,” Schudmak says. Sugar cane is moved onto trucks at the farm and transported to the mill.

Eddie Lewis III pulls up to his Youngsville farm in a large black Ford pickup truck ... sugar cane crop. He’s surrounded by sugar cane, and because of a prolonged drought in Louisiana, the ...

Unlike other sugarcane producing areas, Louisiana’s grinding season is ... Like worker bees to a hive, cane trucks are traveling in and out of the mill every minute. Each delivers tons of ...

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - Frequent rain and muddy conditions made the closing sugar-cane harvesting season a ... to be careful around muddy fields where trucks are still operating.

Heartfelt tributes and prayers are pouring in for the family of a woman killed after her car collided with a sugar cane ...

JEANERETTE, La. (KLFY) — There are only 11 sugar mills in Louisiana ... With around 800 trucks of cane stalk coming in daily during harvest season, the mill operates 24/7.

The sugar cane industry is a large one here in Louisiana and concerns are high. Kenneth Gravois, a sugar cane specialist with the LSU Agricultural Center, spoke to WWL’s Tommy Tucker about how ...

The events include photo and art exhibits, parades, carnival rides, food and entertainment. .According to the American Sugar Cane League, Louisiana sugarcane growers have been producing sugarcane ...

The import limits, guaranteed prices and loans that have kept 230 years of Louisiana tradition alive were enacted in 1981, when sugar cane farms and mills were on the verge of collapse because of ...