Wet weather, new varieties highlight discussions at Acadiana field days

Iberia Parish sugarcane grower Taylor Blanchard displays a no-till fertilizer implement that applies fertilizer to the top of the rows to allow for more direct applications with less soil disturbance during a field day focused on sugarcane at the LSU AgCenter Iberia Research Station on July 27. (Photo by Derek Albert/LSU AgCenter)
The story of the past two years in Louisiana sugarcane production has been a tale of two very different seasons for farmers. After tallying a bumper harvest from late September through mid-January, many producers may have expected something similar for 2021, but Mother Nature has dampened the outlook for the current growing season. “When we have high rainfall, we tend to get a little lighter crop…

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