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Planting Rate Effects On Sugarcane Yield Trials, Albert Joseph Orgeron
Planting Rate Effects On Sugarcane Yield Trials, Albert Joseph Orgeron
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New varieties are provided to the Louisiana sugarcane industry by researchers at Louisiana State University AgCenter, the United States Department of Agriculture-ARS, and the American Sugar Cane League of the USA, Inc. Currently, Louisiana farmers plant sugarcane at rates ranging from two to five or more whole stalks. A two-stalk planting rate is used to plant all stages of the LSU AgCenter’s sugarcane variety development program. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of planting rate on sugarcane variety trial data and interpretation. A planting rate by variety experiment was conducted at the LSU AgCenter’s Sugar Research …