The practice of cutting off the tough outer husks of sugar cane stalks as an alternative to burning them off in pre-harvest fires has been adopted almost everywhere the crop is grown. Known as "green ...

Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season. For ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOUISIANA (KLFY) — To the untrained eye, a ...

Ja’Morius Mitchell, 18, was reported missing near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later found dead in a burning sugar cane field, deputies said. Screengrab from the Plaquemine Police Department's Facebook ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — To the untrained eye, a burned field may look like a wildfire may have passed through it. What you may not realize is that burning the field is part of the sugarcane farming process ...

Sugar cane farmers investigating a fire in their field stumbled across a missing 18-year-old shot to death and hidden under cut-up plant matter, Louisiana authorities said. Three people have now been ...