It's not as bad as you think !!! It is a five acre field.

This cane field has been set afire to burn the dead leaves off the stalks. There are people around
the field watching the fire.


Sugar cane is nothing more than tall grass. It is planted at the end of summer the first year, and harvested the following fall. Because of this, this years field will remain unplanted next year.

Sugar cane is planted primarily south of Alexandria, in the southern part of the state, from Raceland to the Texas border. Can season usually brings muddy roads to Louisiana, the cane is cut and loaded onto carts hauled out of the muddy field by tractors to a site where it is loaded onto
18-wheeler rigs that haul it to the sugar mills.

Sugar mills have been a dying breed in Louisiana. A new mill was built in Lacassine (southwest Louisiana) to serve the western areas, but most of the mills are located east of New Iberia.