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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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. 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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  • 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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  • Mr. Jessie Breaux, a third generation farmer, takes a moment to remove excess sugar cane from his harvester. Mr. Breaux employs 13 workers who assist with cutting and hauling his farm's cane to the mill.
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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. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Abraham Karam
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  • State Park attendant, Burns Point, Louisiana.
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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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  • 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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  • The crystal structure of freshly produced sugar is inspected prior to being shipped to a storage warehouse.
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  • A hunter navigates a mud boat through the swamp en route back to his hunting camp.
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  • An undocumented Honduran worker in New Orleans.  Despite risking his life on numerous attempts to reach the United States, this worker made his way to post-Katrina New Orleans to help with reconstruction.  He sends paychecks home in support of his wife and children in Honduras.
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  • The Mississippi River glides past the Riverwalk and downtown New Orleans on a December evening.
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  • Mr. Jessie Breaux atop his cane harvester "Big Red".
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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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  • 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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  • Tractors are cleaned of field mud before being serviced during harvest season.
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