Louisiana’s Hardwicks Increasing Sustainability Through Technology
By Brad Robb, Delta Farm Press
When a conflict kept Louisiana cotton producer Ted Schneider from being a presenter at the 22ndannual Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference in Baton Rouge, La., this year, Marshall Hardwick stepped up to the plate. Hardwick Planting Company on Somerset Plantation, located in Tensas Parish in the northeast corner of the Bayou State, is home to Marshall and his family. To say the Hardwicks have a long farming history on one of the most sustainable operations in Louisiana would be quite an understatement.