Whole Stalk Harvesting
Visual storyteller Al Maclean of Thibodaux visited the Judice Brothers' sugarcane farm in Loreauville and shot this interesting whole stalk harvesting footage from the air with a drone camera. The majority of sugarcane farmers use a billet harvester, a machine that chops the cane into smaller billets. However, some farmers elect to use the whole stalk method. Whichever way the cane is chopped, you've got to admit that watching these giant machines move through a cane field is like poetry in motion.