Pointe Coupee Farmers Move Livestock, Clear Fields as They Brace for Spillway Opening Impact
By Emma Kennedy, The Advocate, Baton Rouge
BATCHELOR — Teaspoons clamor against ceramic coffee mugs, loose gravel crunches under the weight of slowing truck tires, and there’s an unspoken but shared anticipation when they shake hands and ask the question: "How’s that spillway going to get you?” The farmers of Pointe Coupee Parish have long gathered around the coffee pot at the local co-op on La. 1 each morning, surrounded by the sugarcane fields and train tracks that leave little to the imagination as far as what drives industry in the area.