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Historic freeze impacts Louisiana agriculture, crops and livestock recovering
This week’s historic freeze caused damage to Louisiana crops and pastures while driving up costs for livestock farmers.
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Indian sugar output down 15.5% yr-on-yr as cane yields fall, trade body says
MUMBAI, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Indian mills have produced 9.54 million metric tons of sugar since the season began on Oct. 1, down 15.5% year-on-year, a leading industry body said on Thursday, as cane ...
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A blanket of snow might have saved Louisiana's sugar cane crops from catastrophic freeze
Hugh Andre walked a small portion of his 10,000 acres of sugar cane in Iberia Parish. He crouched down and began digging away at the dirt and pulling up the remnants of older canes. "Do I think ...
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The World's Cane Sugar Industry, Past and Present
ABOUT the middle of the nineteenth century nine-tenths of the world's sugar was obtained from the sugar cane. At the close of the century the proportion had fallen to about one-half, and the ...
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Louisiana migrant workers sue Lafayette-area sugar cane farm over wages in federal labor suit
A group of Mexican migrants who spent years harvesting sugar cane on a Louisiana farm say they were forced to work long hours without overtime and paid illegally low wages. The workers are now ...