Every Fall, the descendants of our pioneer families gather to continue the age-old ritual of sugar cane grinding. It’s an ...

Grinding season began this week for Lafourche Sugars, and it’s a race to turn 1 million tons of cane into sweet crystals. The mill started up Monday Oct. 7, and for the next 100 days, Lafourche Sugars ...

Frequent rain and muddy conditions made the closing sugar-cane harvesting season a rough one for area farmers and mill operators. Bobby Gravois, a sugar-cane farmer in Thibodaux, tells The Daily Comet ...

Although some sugar mills in the state will continue grinding into January, local mills have shut it down for the season. Grinding began the last week of September at Raceland Raw Sugar and the first ...

Nov. 11—TIFTON, Ga. — From the mule-powered sugar cane mill to the smell of syrup cooking, visitors will become immersed in the days of old in South Georgia on Nov. 20 at the annual cane grinding and ...

Sugar cane grinding season has started in Louisiana and industry officials are predicting that this year’s crop will be better than the last. Jim Simon, general manager of the Thibodaux-based American ...