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 ...

Leonard Julien tickled the ivories at night, teaching himself how to play the piano. By day, Julien farmed sugar cane, lamenting the slowness of planting the stalks by hand. Julien — a Modeste farmer ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

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 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 ...

Tissue Culture Technician Marge Ortega works in the Tissue Culture Transfer Room separating clumps of sugar cane plants at the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center in Kunia. The 80-acre farm had been a ...