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 ...

Welcome to our in-depth exploration of the sugarcane harvest and the intricate process that turns these towering stalks into the sugar we use every day! 🌱 In this video, we take you from the vast ...

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 ...

Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most important economic food and energy crops. Its soaring stalks ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY)— Sugar cane farmer Eddie Lewis talks about this year’s harvest and what he is expecting following the severe drought Louisiana has been in. He said it does not look good, but he was ...

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.

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 ...

In October through December, it never fails that I end up behind a sugar cane truck on my way from Baton Rouge to visit my family in Morgan City. During my route, I drive through Port Allen, Brusly, ...

When Florida's pre-harvest sugar cane burning season began on Oct. 3 with fires across 160 acres of land, the state's department of agriculture, which authorizes the blazes, proclaimed the day the ...