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SE PA | I'm down in South Texas trying to figure out how cover crops can be integrated into a sugar cane and vegetable rotation. These soils really need some help but it's a different world in an almost tropical environment. Extremely dry right now- just over and inch of rain since the beginning of the year. There is some irrigation for sugar cane and the veggies. Had to dig 8 inches to find moisture in some of the cover crop plots they put out in late Dec. Below are some pictures of our tour to the sugar cane mill today. 20 trucks an hour produces 2 trucks of sugar per hour! Even got to sample some raw sugar. Also, corn is 6" high- most of it on raised beds to accommodate furrow irrigation and some is in twin rows.
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 (JD sugar can harvestor.jpg)
 (Carts loaded with sugar cane waiting for trucks.jpg)
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 (100,000 ton pile of raw sugar.jpg)
 (Tillage Radish in front of sugar mill.jpg)
 (watermelons between triticale.jpg)
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JD sugar can harvestor.jpg (34KB - 179 downloads)
Carts loaded with sugar cane waiting for trucks.jpg (34KB - 184 downloads)
molassas tanks.jpg (23KB - 170 downloads)
100,000 ton pile of raw sugar.jpg (26KB - 186 downloads)
Tillage Radish in front of sugar mill.jpg (49KB - 163 downloads)
watermelons between triticale.jpg (60KB - 172 downloads)
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Agriculture in South Texas-pics
