Grower Troy Thibodeaux of Labadieville is constantly thinking of ways to make his sugarcane farming business more efficient.
His innovations have helped to make his 3000-acre farm more profitable. He conceived and built multiple 30-foot five-row cultivators.
U.S. sugar producers have publicly backed a “zero-for-zero” sugar policy, which would promote an end to global sugar subsidies in favor of a free market. Meanwhile, foreign sugar producers have been busy ratcheting up their subsidies and artificially manipulating global prices.
New words like wood pellets and biomass are providing a ray of hope for forest landowners who have seen nothing but low prices since the downturn in the economy.
For the past three years, the U.S. has faced competition for milled rice in our number one export market -- Mexico. In 2010, we held 97 percent of the milled rice market share in Mexico. With an influx of high quality Uruguayan rice, the U.S. market share fell to 76 percent by the end of 2011.
WASHINGTON -- The final negotiations on the new Farm Bill are advancing more slowly than expected, frustrating Conference Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and other lawmakers.
