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 ...

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 ...

For over 200 years in the United States, sugar cane field burning has been a tool that farmers use in the pre-harvest season to remove the tops of the sugar cane plant. However, the smoke from ...

The sugar cane industry, while producing a $4.2 billion annual economic impact in Louisiana, creates tons of waste product every year. What to do with that waste has long been a problem for sugar ...

Read The Post's 2022 investigation Glades residents left behind: Nikki Fried’s ‘changes’ to cane burning served only Big Sugar The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits entities receiving ...