"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 ...

Jun. 3—WASHINGTON — Vermilion Parish sugar cane farmer Kyle Zenon put on his Sunday church suit to haunt the halls of Capitol Hill in a quest to push a gridlocked Congress into passing the stalled ...

Louisiana's sugar cane production is booming. Despite a severe drought, the state's 2023 harvest produced more than 1.8 million tons of sugar. The number of acres of sugar cane harvested has been ...

Sugarcane season began this week after a summer drought. Eddie Lewis of Eddie Lewis Sugarcane Farms LLC, said this has resulted in a loss for many sugarcane farmers like himself. "I would say in ...

In a dramatic display of discontent, sugarcane farmers in West Champaran set an effigy of the state’s sugarcane minister ...

WASHINGTON — Vermilion Parish sugar cane farmer Kyle Zenon put on his Sunday church suit to haunt the halls of Capitol Hill in a quest to push a gridlocked Congress into passing the stalled Farm Bill.