LSU AgCenter Sugar Research Station

08/06/2025

“Sweeten Your Day” is a segment hosted by LSU AgCenter area sugarcane agent Renee Naquin and Katie Richard, an agronomist with the American Sugar Cane League...

07/09/2025

07/01/2025

Please join us on July 16th for our annual Sugarcane Field Day!

06/25/2025

Come see us next Wednesday July 2nd for our first Watermelon Field Day!

06/02/2025

A few weeks ago, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, the American Sugar Cane League, and the LSU AgCenter voted to release our new cultivar, USDS ARS HoCP18-803! We are excited to see what it will do for our growers, especially how it responds to ripener applications! Louisiana Sugarcane

05/23/2025

04/22/2025

12/13/2024

Growing up on a farm in St. Martinville, Brayden Blanchard knew he wanted to make a living doing something related to sugarcane — the crop his family has cultivated for five generations.

As a senior in high school, Blanchard tagged along with his father to a grower meeting at the local sugar mill, where he met LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist Kenneth Gravois. Intrigued as he listened to Gravois talk about his background in breeding new crop varieties, Blanchard’s future began to come into focus.

Today, Blanchard is doing his part to help develop improved sugarcane varieties, having joined the AgCenter Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel as an assistant professor this summer. Full article: https://tinyurl.com/y8sxab69

11/26/2024

Join the LSU AgCenter for an Evening in the Garden at the LSU AgCenter Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel, Louisiana on Tuesday, Nov 26 from 4 to 6 p.m.

The Sugar Station has installed a vegetable demonstration garden and this event will celebrate it! Experts will be on hand to answer your gardening questions. The event will feature 4-H kids activities, cooking demos and more.