[Syrupmakers] Crop Report (Am. Sugarcane League)

[Bill Outlaw]

Tracey,

What can you say about L97-128?   I've read good 
things about it as a sugar variety.

Thanks, b

At 12:01 PM 11/14/2006, you wrote:
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>It’s not based on good syrup-producing 
>varieties, but here is a snippet from this 
>month’s “The Sugar Bulletin” (November 2006 – Volume 85, No. 2).
>
> From initial reports by producers and 
> processors, this year’s crop appears to be 
> significantly beter than last year’s.  In most 
> areas of the cane belt, growers are reporting 
> field yields at least two tons more per acre 
> than was expected.  Additionally, the sugar 
> content of fields treated with a ripener is 
> very good, with most reporting 200 (+) lbs of 
> sugar per ton of cane.  With the start of 
> harvest and with the weathermen predicting an 
> El Nino effect this winter, it may not be wise 
> to wish for rain, but a 1 to 2 inch rain would 
> certainly improve the potential of next year’s plant cane.
>
>
This year’s planting is one of the largest 
>plantings in a number of years.  Planing of new 
>varieties, reduction in acreage of older stubble 
>and replacement of flood-damages acreage are 
>among the reasons for this year’s large 
>planting.  Perhaps the number one reason for 
>this increase in planting is that the industry 
>is making a rapid reduction in its acreage of 
>LCP85-384.  During the midsummer drought, 
>LCP85-384’s lack of vigor was obvious and 
>accelerated the effort to reduce 384’s 
>acreage.  Most growers were able to  plant the 
>newer varieties (95-988, 96-540, and 97-128) on 
>all of the 2006 planted acres.
>
>
Most of the seedcane from the secondary 
>stations of L99-226 was a very good quality and 
>straight; however, the L99-233 is was just the 
>opposite.  Much of the seecane of this variety 
>fell before it could be distributed, because of 
>its height and tendency to lodge.  For several 
>secondary stations the seed plots of L99-233 was 
>such a tangled mess that growers decided not to plant their allocations.
>
>...A second reason for this year’s large 
>planting is the industry’s effort to reduce its 
>percentage of older stubble fields (second and 
>older).  Economics have proven that it does not 
>pay to keep stubble that did not give good 
>yields the previous year.  Acreage of stressed 
>older stubble fields (multiyear ripener treated, 
>early harvested, and flooded), which were kept 
>expecting/hoping  that they would rebound from 
>the absuee of 2005, is not producing yields as was hoped.
>
>
The new varities have a host of differences 
>when compared to LCP 85-384, which has been 
>described as one of the worst types of varieites 
>for the combine harvester.  LCP85-384 is a 
>variety that lodges early with the slightest 
>wind and/or rian, and has small stalks with a 
>lot of trash.  HoCP96-540 and L99-226 appear to 
>have a slightly less percentage of trash and 
>heavier stalks than LCP85-384.  L99-226 appears 
>to have a looser leaf sheath than 540 with an 
>incredible average stalk weight approaching 
>three pounds, but is not as erect as 540
.
>
>Tracy Baudoin
>Houma, LA
>Sugarcane
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