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Ag Photos After Hurricane Gustav

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farmer in sugarcane field
Bernard Laviolette Jr. of Coteau Holmes shows damage to his sugarcane crop. (Bruce Schultz, 9/8/08)

Jeffrey Sylvester
Farmer Jeffrey Sylvester looks over flooded rice fields in Avoyelles Parish. (Bruce Schultz, 9/8/08)

flooded soybeans
Flooded soybeans at Whiteville. (Bruce Schultz, 9/8/08)

flooded rice
Mature rice in the water at the Sylvester farm in Avoyelles Parish. (Bruce Schultz, 9/5/08)

rice kernels on ground
Rice kernels on the ground. (Bruce Schultz, 9/5/08)
flooded cotton
A cotton field in Avoyelles Parish south of Bunkie is an example of how crops suffered from excessive rainfall brought about by Hurricane Gustav. (Bruce Schultz, 9/8/08)

stripped rice
Most of the rice kernels from this field in Evangeline parish have been stripped from this panicle as a result of high winds brought by Hurricane Gustav. (Bruce Schultz, 9/5/08)

flooded soybean plant
Soybeans stand in water in a field near Whiteville between Bunkie and Ville Platte. (Bruce Schultz, 9/5/08)



Posted on: 9/24/2008 9:01:08 AM

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