date:Sep 19, 2012
and you have a tremendous crop, beautiful, and then you come the next day and you see a crop like this. Canes supposed to be 15 feet tall and you find it two feet from the ground. But thats Mother Nature, Sotile said.
Statewide, the damage is less than what agricultural officials feared. However, the storm hit while farmers still were planting next years sugar cane crop. Many fields will have to be replanted.
Guidry said farmers may have to switch planting methods.
With sugar cane, farmers ha