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LOUISIANA SUGAR

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  • A tractor lights a field of freshly cut sugarcane on fire to burn excess leaf material prior to its transportation to the mill.
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  • Mr. Ronald Gabriel takes a break from removing excess sugar cane from a piece of harvest machinery in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.
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  • Tractor buggies loaded with tons of freshly harvested sugar cane are parked at Sterling Sugar Mill in Franklin, Louisiana.
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  • Raw sugar is stored in a warehouse facility at the St. Mary Sugar Co-Op in Jeanerette, Louisiana.
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  • Mr. Jessie Breaux atop his cane harvester "Big Red".
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  • Two types of combines are currently used by sugar cane farmers: whole stalk cane harvesters, and chopper harvesters such as the one pictured which remove excess plant material and chop the cane into small pieces prior to loading.
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  • The giant wheel of a cane harvester dwarfs the operator as he inspects the undercarriage of the machine.
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  • Mrs. Ruby Galvez, a seasonal mill employee from Chiapas, Mexico, is involved with the latter stages of the sugar extraction process on the third floor of the St. Mary Sugar Co-Op.
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  • Mr. Authur "Peas" Collins, an employee of the Bayou Cane Co., drives his work truck to a cane loading site in a freshly harvested field.
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  • Mr. Jessie Breaux stands in front of one of his last patches of freshly cut and burned sugarcane prior to hauling it to the St. Mary Sugar Co-op in Jeanerette, Louisiana.  Mr. Breaux, who is retiring after 31 years of farming, is one of few remaining farmers in Louisiana to utilize traditional whole stalk harvesting, a technique that's being replaced by newer harvest methods.
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  • A farm worker begins the process of removing mud from a tractor that needs servicing.
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  • A whole stalk cane loader gathers freshly cut sugar cane into large bundles which are then loaded into the back of tractor buggies and transported to the mill.
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  • Mr. David, a long time buggy operator at Breaux Farms, pulls two cane carts through a field as a loader piles in nearly 30 tons of freshly cut and burned sugarcane.  The carts are then driven to a nearby headland and transported to St. Mary Sugar Co-op.
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  • Approximately 30 tons of freshly cut sugar cane stalks await transportation to the St. Mary Sugar Co-op where raw sugar juice will be extracted and crystalized into raw sugar.
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  • Workers wash mill equipment on the ground floor of St. Mary Sugar Co-Op. The machinery is is the functional backbone of the mill's operations.
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  • Tractors are cleaned of field mud before being serviced during harvest season.
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  • Mr. Ernest Armstead, a tractor buggy driver with the Bayou Cane Company, waits to haul his load of sugar cane to the mill.
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  • Mr. Breaux operates the controls on his two row whole stalk harvester as he maneuvers through 12 foot tall rows of sugar cane. Each fall he is responsible for harvesting 1,800 acres of sugar cane.
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  • Excess cane is removed from the sugar harvester.
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  • Looking back as the cane harvester cuts its way through a field.
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  • Mr. Breaux radios ahead to workers who are loading the sugar cane he cuts.
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  • Mr. Breaux makes some adjustments to the harvester.
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  • Tractors form piles of freshly cut sugar cane at the St. Mary Sugar Co-Op in preparation for processing.
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  • A welder takes a break inside the repair shop at the St. Mary Sugar Co-op in Jeanerette, LA.
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  • Trucks unload sugarcane at St. Mary Parish Sugar Co-Op.   The cane then enters the mill where sugar juice is extracted from the cane stalks.
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  • Mr. Nolan Poledore monitors equipment as crushed cane is transported through a series of grinding wheels designed to extract sugar juice. The mill produces over 3 million pounds of raw sugar each day during grinding season.
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  • Workers hose off the track of a giant hydraulic press which consolidates and crushes recently cut sugar cane at the St. Mary Sugar Co-Op. The cane then enters the mill where sugar juice is extracted from the cane stalks.
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  • Mill workers repair a clogged sugar juice extractor inside at the St. Mary Sugar Co-op.
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  • Shredded sugar cane is moved along belt driven machines in St. Mary Sugar Co-Op.
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  • A Central American worker gives directions to his team of employees at the St. Mary Sugar Co-op.  The mill relies heavily on workers traveling from Latin American sugar producing countries who have intimate knowledge of the sugar extraction prcess.
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  • Mill machinery in the St. Mary Parish Sugar Co-Op.
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  • The crystal structure of freshly produced sugar is inspected prior to being shipped to a storage warehouse.
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  • Mr. Juan Garcia, a Mexican native, removes bagasse, the biomass by-product of sugar cane, from a furnace which produces steam generated power to augment the mill's massive energy consumption.
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  • Mr. Abraham Gilbert, sugar warehouse supervisor at the St. Mary Sugar Co-op.
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  • Excess bagasse is removed from the mill's furnace and carted outside.  Bagasse, the fibrous remains of sugar cane stalks after all the juice has been extracted, is burned to help produce electricity and offset the mills enormous power consumption.
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  • A mill worker packs his belongings at the end of his shift at the St. Mary Sugar Co-op.
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  • Mrs. Emma keeps paperwork in order at the St. Mary Sugar Co-Op.
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  • Raw sugar is loaded via a series of conveyor belts from the mill into barges waiting in Bayou Teche. The sugar is subsequently transported to food production facilities throughout the United States.
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  • A tractor sets a freshly cut field of sugar can on fire to remove the excess foliage from the stalks.
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