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A blanket of snow might have saved Louisiana's sugar cane crops from catastrophic freeze
His farm completed harvest ... science of our new varieties of sugar cane to help mitigate those effects," Gravois said. The last big freeze to come through Louisiana was in 1989, he added.
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Drones are changing farming in rural Louisiana. Here's what the future looks like.
After COVID began to wind down, Denais felt the call to return to Louisiana. He enrolled at ... help with ripener and spot applications in sugar cane, Price said. Ripeners, which signal to sugar ...
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LaPolitics: Mike Strain talks about the cold’s impact on crawfish, sugarcane
LaPolitics: How did the recent winter storm affect Louisiana agriculture?  Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain: Overall, we were very fortunate that the snow preceded the ...
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Could Louisiana farmers’ crops be affected by historic snowstorm?
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First ... farmers may not have issues after covering their products. As far as sugar cane, in the long term, they’ll be fine. “For the sugarcane folks, any ...
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Snow may have saved some Louisiana crops from the freeze; crawfish thriving despite winter weather
BATON ROUGE, La ... of Four Oaks Farm. He says the sugarcane was insulated because snow fell on it before the temperatures dipped to single digits. While the tops of the cane didn’t do as ...