Lacassine News

Development on the Lacassine Rail Loading Facility can finally begin. The Jeff Davis Police Jury awarded the low bid to a local contractor Wednesday, May 23.

Rice farmers can hear from LSU AgCenter scientists and tour a new railroad loading facility at Lacassine during the Southwest Rice Field Day on May 30.

Seniors from the Class of 2012 officially concluded their high school careers during Lacassine High School's 71th annual graduation exercise held Thursday evening at John Juneau Gymnasium.

It's been obvious for years that the state made a bad move when then-Commissioner of Agriculture Bob Odom got Louisiana into the syrup mill building business in Lacassine.

The state spent nearly $72 million on a much-delayed and over-budget syrup mill and rail line intended to bolster production of sugar cane in Louisiana, including $6.4 million for state employees' salaries, though the mill was only active for a total of four months, according to a report from the Legislative Auditor's Office.

The Louisiana legislative auditor says the state spent $63.5 million on an ill-fated sugar cane mill at Lacassine.