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re: A Question for Cane Farmers on Cold Tolerance
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:40 pm to NattyLite
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:40 pm to NattyLite
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Wow. Really? More than any excavator, dozer, forestry equipment??
Does any of that equipment run more than a million dollars new? Cane farming definitely isn’t small stakes, lol.
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It’s not about how much cane the farmer can handle cutting it’s about how much cane the mill can take in from said farmer. Farmers are almost always on quotas of how many tons they can send to the mill daily. Mill has to appease all farmers.
Gotcha. Sounds more like a milling bottleneck than a growing/climate bottleneck, then.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:46 pm to Decisions
quote:Pretty sure it was even worse a while back when cane was transported in larger sizes. When the Meeker mill closed, cane pretty much disappeared in CENLA.
Gotcha. Sounds more like a milling bottleneck than a growing/climate bottleneck, then.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 2:06 pm to Decisions
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Gotcha. Sounds more like a milling bottleneck than a growing/climate bottleneck, then.
That's not the case. There's new acres getting put into cane every year. It's literally a climate and soils issue.
Sugarcane is a tropical crop. South American farmers can get multiple harvests out of a field in a single year, and the cane is much larger down there.
Here, however, cane is at its northern limits. This is part of the reason cane stubble is burned, because if they leave it on the ground too long, the soil may not get to the temperature it needs to be long enough for growth. Once you get far enough north where hard freezes happen pretty regularly, the climate is no longer suitable for cane.
On top of that, the best soils for can production are the alluvial soils along the Atchafalaya and Mississippi. Once you get so far west (i.e., onto the prairie), the productivity of those soils drops of significantly.
This post was edited on 5/15/24 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:12 pm to Decisions
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Does any of that equipment run more than a million dollars new? Cane farming definitely isn’t small stakes, lol.
Wow. That’s incredible. Got some YouTubing to do tonight!
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