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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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  • Tractor buggies loaded with tons of freshly harvested sugar cane are parked at Sterling Sugar Mill in Franklin, Louisiana.
    louisiana sugar_sterling.tif
  • 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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  • 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.
    louisiana sugar_sterling barge.tif
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    louisiana sugar_DSC_0988.tif
  • 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. 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 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.
    louisiana sugar_DSC_0857.tif
  • A tractor sets a freshly cut field of sugar can on fire to remove the excess foliage from the stalks.
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  • A farm worker begins the process of removing mud from a tractor that needs servicing.
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  • Tractors are cleaned of field mud before being serviced during harvest season.
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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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