NEW IBERIA — The 2018 Louisiana sugarcane crop has the potential to set a record if weather conditions are favorable.
“We have a tremendously good crop out there,” said LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist Kenneth Gravois. “We could beat the record crop we had last year.”
Sugar recovery so far is not as good as last year, but the tonnage is high with many farms averaging more than 40 tons an acre. “That’s really, really good,” Gravois said.