ished its 2025 season early Saturday morning after 102 days of processing sugar cane.
The factory took in its final delivery around 5 p.m. on Friday and finished processing the cane around 4:47 a.m. on Saturday, LaSuCa Ag Division Manager John Hebert said on Monday.
"We just finished what we refer to as liquidation around late morning today, around 10 or 11 o’clock,” he said. “We just made the last of the sugar that was in process.”
The mill processed 2,049,800 tons of sugar cane.
“That’s kind of what we expected,” Hebert said.
The factory processed 20,213 tons per day of sugar cane, he added.
The cane’s Theoretical Recoverable Sugar (TRS) value from the core sampler averaged 210.3 pounds of sugar per ton of sugar cane processed, above the 200 TRS level at the beginning of the grinding season.
"We finished up a little higher than expected,” Hebert said. “We use 205 pounds per ton as an average. That’s kind of the norm.
And we started out the season lower than that. But it ended up really picking up as we went on and sugar per ton ended up exceeding our expectations.”
The season saw no major issues for the factory or farmers.
“We ended up yielding about 32.9 tons per acre overall, which is pretty average,” Hebert said. “As far as the factory performance, the factory performed really well. We didn’t have any real major breakdowns, any real significant issues.”
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The good weather this year with no big storms or heavy extended rainfall helped make the season a successful one.
“The weather was incredible,” Hebert said. “We had really dry weather all throughout the season. The efficiency’s that’s created by that goes all the way from the field to the factory. It’s just easier to harvest, easier to clean the cane properly, easier to process the cane because you’re bringing in less foreign matter. All good.”
