WAFB

Ascension Parish family’s responsible for 1st ever sugar cane planter, during this Black History month the family is remembering their legacy.

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 ...
WWNO

Sugar cane field burning: the consequences of the centuries-old practice and possible alternatives

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 that ...
WGNO

Original sugar cane planter designed by Donaldsonville man to be entered into museum

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...
The Advocate

It revolutionized the sugarcane industry. Now, the planting machine returns home to Ascension.

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 ...
The Advocate

Innovative Acadiana plant to turn sugar cane bagasse into biofuel pellets

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 ...
WGNO

Original sugar cane planter designed by Donaldsonville man to be entered into museum

DONALDSONVILLE, La (BRPROUD) — The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office is honoring a Donaldsonville man for Black History Month. Leonard Julien Sr. was born into a family of sugar cane farmers, ...