BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - One Ascension Parish family is responsible for the first ever sugar cane planter. During this Black History month, the family is remembering their legacy. Hard work and ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DONALDSONVILLE, La (BRPROUD) — The Ascension ...

Sugar cane planters may be able to use pesticides more safely, according to two studies published by Nicholls State University recently. Nicholls chemistry professor Darcey Wayment said adding ...