Sugarcane around Kaplan.

[Chip Landry]

I feel the same way.. Sugar cane seems to be easier to farm with a larger profit, so more farmers are going that direction. My grand parents live between Kaplan and Cow Island so I grew up traveling from Scott to Kaplan often. Durning the winter we would go on 35 to see all the geese on the refuge and there was always some on the SE and SW corners of 700 and 35 but now it's cane fields on that intersection. It pisses my dad off every time we pass and there is a new cane field!!

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by Chip Landry

I feel the same way.. Sugar cane seems to be easier to farm with a larger profit, so more farmers are going that direction. My grand parents live between Kaplan and Cow Island so I grew up traveling from Scott to Kaplan often. Durning the winter we would go on 35 to see all the geese on the refuge and there was always some on the SE and SW corners of 700 and 35 but now it's cane fields on that intersection. It pisses my dad off every time we pass and there is a new cane field!!

theres some new ones this year in the area for sure

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by meaux fishing

theres some new ones this year in the area for sure

Yep they planting right next to one of my dads crawfish ponds right now. That can't be good with all the chemicals they spray.

[Duck Butter]

Plenty of wildlife in sugarcane fields, one of the few places you can actually see quail

Also, plenty of chemicals used in rice farming as well, so the chemical comment is null and all those chemicals and wastewater gets drained off several times a year and goes right down the bayou, and they use a TON of water to pump those fields and many of them pump from groundwater = drinking water
And diesel prices to pump those fields is pretty high

Sugarcane farming seems a lot less intensive than rice

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Plenty of wildlife in sugarcane fields, one of the few places you can actually see quail

Also, plenty of chemicals used in rice farming as well, so the chemical comment is null and all those chemicals and wastewater gets drained off several times a year and goes right down the bayou, and they use a TON of water to pump those fields and many of them pump from groundwater = drinking water
And diesel prices to pump those fields is pretty high

Sugarcane farming seems a lot less intensive than rice

don't do any rice just crawfish. Not a chemical one in the ponds.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

don't do any rice just crawfish. Not a chemical one in the ponds.

Gotcha, was talking about rice fields

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

Yep they planting right next to one of my dads crawfish ponds right now. That can't be good with all the chemicals they spray.

I'm surronded by cane, they fertilize once a year and a few weeks before harvest the spray some chemical to almost kill it to make the sugar yeild go up. Chemicals cost and farmers aint down with spending a ton of money.

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

I'm surronded by cane, they fertilize once a year and a few weeks before harvest the spray some chemical to almost kill it to make the sugar yeild go up. Chemicals cost and farmers aint down with spending a ton of money.

Yep they spray it to imitate a freeze. If they do happen to get a hard freeze they don't have to.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

Yep they spray it to imitate a freeze. If they do happen to get a hard freeze they don't have to.

you learn something new everyday, never knew dat