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May 13, 2010The LSU Agcenter announces a new variety of sugar cane.
Kenneth Gravois, an AgCenter sugarcane specialist, says the new variety produces significantly more sugar than the one most widely grown in Louisiana last year.
AgCenter scientists and breeders worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sugarcane Research Laboratory in Houma and the American Sugar Cane League in Thibodaux to develop the new variety.
“Seed cane” farmers plant whole stalks, and buds along the stalks grow into new plants.
The letter and number code for the cane is called “L 03-371.”
Gravois says farmers can apply for seed cane now.
They will be able to get it in late August and September.
