Moreauville LA | DRester - 1/5/2025 20:55
I appreciate your posting the photos. I enjoyed looking at the photos and reading the nice responses, especially the update on Darrel V?
I have forgot about everything I ever knew about sugarcane. How many tons of cane do you plant per acre? Also, do you still get one plant cane crop and two stubble crops before replanting?
I don't think people realize that harvesting sugarcane is a massive material movement operation. What is the normal yield per acre and how far do you haul the cane to a mill?
I am surprised that you are still harvesting. I assumed that being that far north you would be finished by the middle of December.
Planting ratio with wholestalk has been around 8:1. So with say at planting time, 36T cane, 4.5T or so of seed. The variety most prevalent, L-299, LSU release is on prob 70% of the state. It rattoons very well and responds well to ripener/glyphosate. Not uncommon to have some 6th stubble.
I am shipping to Cajun at New Iberia, about 105 mi one way. Have been from 18-40 loads per day, depending on if I have one or two machines in the field. We are on a 2 pm to 2 am schedule to keep traffic at a minimum on I49 and through Lafayette. Is is said that a cane truck passes under I-10 every 37 seconds, and that is just the Bayou Teche north to Bunkie & Simmesport cane. As of tonight, day 105 of the grind, the mill dumped 47,989 loads. I will finish out at 44T per acre and a sugar of 220 and look to get 44 cents for this crop. We are down to 11 mills and they are all monsters now. All at 1 million plus tons, and a couple right at 2 million, with Cora, Patout and Alma leading in tonnage.
Three of the mills on the Teche have harvest groups that harvest some of the crop. Trucking is provided in the 39% mill retainage but we pay by the ton for the harvester and wagons. It takes a lot of the labor and equipment exposure away, but still isn't like doing it yourself. Fluency in Spanish is becoming a necessity. I'll post more pics.
Edited by Survivor 1/5/2025 22:12
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2024 pics.
