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re: Sugarcane trucks
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:18 pm to bengaltigersfan
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:18 pm to bengaltigersfan
Cane isn’t like beans,rice corn or cotton whereas you harvest till it’s out.
You have an allotment and a time given to you by the sugar mill that tells you when to harvest/bring your crop in.
You have an allotment and a time given to you by the sugar mill that tells you when to harvest/bring your crop in.
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Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:27 pm to CitizenK
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Just imagine what it used to be like when the roads were filled with carts of whole cane pulled by tractors
Those were death machines. Especially on a foggy day.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:28 pm to bengaltigersfan
Because they work unlike you living off gubment dime
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:38 pm to Got Blaze
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MA Patout & Sons in Patoutville was started in 1825 and they currently farm over 500,000 acres
In LA? of sugarcane ground?
There isn't anyway this is correct.
There is less than 500k aces of sugarcane in LA on a year to year basis
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:48 pm to bengaltigersfan
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Can anyone tell me why the need to haul sugarcane on Christmas Day? There’s got to be a reason.
To get the cane to the mill to grind. They are farmers trying to get the crop in.
Cane also spoils after a hard freeze.
Anybody that doesn’t give yield to a farmer is an arse.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 2:28 pm to wadewilson
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Can vouch. I've climbed one of those piles before.
I used to pull weekend night shift for him when he didn't have the people to work. I always loved working all night then getting in my dew/ sugar covered truck which would basically turn into syrup. My windshield wipers would just get stuck.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 2:24 am to bbarras85
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Cane isn’t like beans,rice corn or cotton whereas you harvest till it’s out.
You have an allotment and a time given to you by the sugar mill that tells you when to harvest/bring your crop in.
This is what I remember from 50-60 years ago growing up. The mill basically told the farmers when to start harvesting and when would be the last day of operations of the mill.
Some years the last day of mill operation would be pushed back some due to lots of rain or hurricane crop damage.
I knew a salesman that supplied wheel bearings and other equipment to the cane farmers. He said during a wet year, they made big sales bonuses because of number of wheel bearing sales to keep those "carts" rolling. He also told me Louisiana had a law to make it legal to pull those carts on the highways.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 6:36 am to bengaltigersfan
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What is done with all of the cane husks that have been ground/squeezed? I have seems piles of this by sugar mills.
Sometimes it’s used as fuel to run processes at the mill.
Back in the 80s at the old mill in Meeker, it was left to rot on the ground when the mill closed.
For at least two years it smelled like the worst dog shite you could imagine. I bet the local residents weren’t very happy about that.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 6:50 am to bengaltigersfan
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I don’t believe I called anyone a dip shite. I asked a question.
Welcome to the rant. There are a lot of keyboard warriors here.
The bigger question is why haven't the leaders of those towns lobbied to bring in industries like microchip plants into the rural areas rather than to cut and haul that shite year after year? Louisiana you gotta step it up or get left behind!
This post was edited on 12/28/22 at 6:54 am
Posted on 12/28/22 at 7:11 am to aTmTexas Dillo
Below is part of a report Farm Bureau, from LSU Ag Center, re 2022 harvest. They are hustling to get cane to the mill before freeze damage reduces quality.
I read that it is a bumper crop. Years back, milling was often done by Christmas, but it is expected to go deep into 2023 this season.
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I read that it is a bumper crop. Years back, milling was often done by Christmas, but it is expected to go deep into 2023 this season.
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A severe freeze is forecasted beginning on December 23, 2022, and for a series of nights afterwards. At the time of the December 23rd freeze, the industry will be about 83% harvested. All sugarcane remaining in the industry will be damaged to some extent. Every freeze event is different and forecasting the extent that harvest can be completed is impossible.
Deterioration following a freeze is temperature dependent – higher temperatures will increase deterioration and lower temperatures will reduce deterioration. Stalks have peaked in sugar content and will begin to slowly dehydrate. Any stalk damage, whether by freezing temperatures, borer injury, growth cracks, brittleness, harvester, or mill yard equipment, will allow bacteria to enter the stalk to begin the deterioration process.
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Stacks of harvested cane at the farm should be managed to allow for processing in 18-24 hours. Do not stack overnight.
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Posted on 12/28/22 at 7:22 am to Twenty 49
Need to harvest sooner.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 8:51 am to bengaltigersfan
That’s government sugar, son.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 9:47 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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The bigger question is why haven't the leaders of those towns lobbied to bring in industries like microchip plants into the rural areas rather than to cut and haul that shite year after year? Louisiana you gotta step it up or get left behind!
STFU retard.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 9:49 am to bengaltigersfan
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Can anyone tell me why the need to haul sugarcane on Christmas Day?
Do you know anything about farming ?
Posted on 12/28/22 at 9:51 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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The bigger question is why haven't the leaders of those towns lobbied to bring in industries like microchip plants into the rural areas rather than to cut and haul that shite year after year? Louisiana you gotta step it up or get left behind!
Because the leaders of those towns are sugar cane farmers
Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:57 am to welder69
With advances in farm tech, most employees are seasonal. They are legal, do the work and move on.
Locals don’t need the check anymore.
They get it elsewhere. IYKWIM
Locals don’t need the check anymore.
They get it elsewhere. IYKWIM
Posted on 12/28/22 at 11:00 am to Twenty 49
Damn, I miss grinding.
Went through the other day, now dragging bagasse on my tires up to VA.
Pretty rank.
Went through the other day, now dragging bagasse on my tires up to VA.
Pretty rank.
This post was edited on 12/28/22 at 11:01 am
Posted on 12/28/22 at 11:41 am to bengaltigersfan
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There’s got to be a reason
Cause they are not finished.
On an aside, cane farming must be pretty damn profitable.....the man power that is used to harvest and haul is mindboggling. Lines of trucks being loaded around the clock for weeks at a time.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 11:43 am to aTmTexas Dillo
quote:You are kidding right.
The bigger question is why haven't the leaders of those towns lobbied to bring in industries like microchip plants into the rural areas rather than to cut and haul that shite year after year? Louisiana you gotta step it up or get left behind!
They would find about 3 qualified employees to staff a plant in rural La.
Additionally, when the world has moved on from microchips they will still be putting sugar in their coffee and eating brownies.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 11:48 am to tigerfoot
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On an aside, cane farming must be pretty damn profitable.....
you ever seen a poor sugarcane farmer?
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