BASEL, Switzerland -- Syngenta announced today that it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta's innova-tion would reduce ...

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 ...

LAFAYETTE, LA — “We’re growing cane at the northernmost latitude here in Louisiana”, Wilson Judice, an agronomist for the American Sugarcane League, told me after walking out of a truck full of ...

A vintage sugarcane planting machine — one of 154 made by the Louisianan whose invention ended cane-planting's back-breaking hand labor — has been brought back home to Ascension Parish, where it was ...

Sugar cane is an inextricable part of the culture and economy in South Louisiana. Our state is the northernmost location in the world where sugarcane is grown, planted across more ...

Described by explorers as “the reed which gives honey without bees,” sugar cane became one of the most desired plants in the ancient world. The plant: Described by explorers as “the reed which gives ...