date:Sep 19, 2012
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Sugar cane is planted in the fall and harvested the following fall. One planting generally produces three years of harvests.
Frankie Sotile, who farms 3,000 acres of sugar cane in St. James, Ascension and Assumption parishes, worries about root damage and poor harvest yields because the storm soaked his fields and uprooted cane.
He does not have crop insurance.
At Sotiles fields near Donaldsonville, the storm blew over some of his cane, twisting it in the process.
You wake up one morning