Some things can’t be believed until experienced. Since I grew up in Mississippi and have spent the past 18 years in Louisiana, I thought I was prepared for the heat of the equator in July. I was wrong ...

TROY, Ala. — Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Joe Todd of Todd Farms in Dothan said "Amen" to that. The seventh-generation syrup-maker ...

Ben LeBlanc, the manager of Lafourche Sugar, is the representation of a new breed of sugar millers. He said he was attracted to the sugar-cane industry, not because it was in his blood (his father was ...

A tractor pulls a trailer loaded with sugarcane along a muddy section of the Chemelil-Amu Road in Muhoroni Constituency, Kisumu County. [Collins Oduor, Standard] For Jared Otieno, any sign of rainfall ...