Years ago they use to burn the fields first; cut the cane in full stalks and let it lay next to the row; then come along with a backhoe and load the stalks into wagons behind a tractor; take it to a central loading area; dump it on the ground; and then take another backhoe and load it into tractor trailers.
Today they cut the cane green with the machine in the video. It takes in the whole plant; cuts the cane in pieces 6 to 12 inches long and runs it up a conveyor to a cart pulled next to the cutter. Fans blow across the cane to blow the lighter leaves out the back. That cart the tractor is pulling can be parked next to a tractor trailer and the cart will lift in the air a dump the load off the side into the road trailer.
Sugar cane is planted and harvested 1 row at a time. They cut the cane in August and plant it into fields that have been fallow all summer long. The plant will be ready for harvest the next September to December. They get 3 harvest years off 1 planting around here. More in locations better suited for cane growing.
You can look around the lsu ag web site in the link and find out anything you want to know about growing sugarcane in La.
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