date:Sep 19, 2012
rvest some acres for sugar and harvest other acres for seed to plant future crops. Storm damage could force farmers to harvest the cane in smaller pieces for seed, requiring more acres to be used for seed instead of money-generating sugar.
Replanting fields also will hit farmers pocketbooks.
Reed St. Pierre, who has 595 acres of cane in St. John the Baptist Parish, said he has 10 acres that still are underwater two weeks after the hurricane hit.
He said he will have to plow those acres and re