i used to work on a farm where we grew maybe 150 row feet of sugarcane. not really for a market, but mostly to propagate the cane and add to a stockpile for some TBD potential future use.
we didn’t have a canebreak or whatever, but sometimes we’d cut out hunks to chew on or squeeze into some tea.
it’s flavor brings a smile that says, “OK, i can see why this is a thing.”
rather than a unit-area, it’s unit-length. the equivalent of one row of cane planted, measuring 150 feet. bed width is not standardized, so depending on a crop’s spacing and a bed’s width, one might fit 2-3 or more rows in a bed.
we planted/propagated by laying the cane horizontally and burying it, because it will shoot up new cane from the internodes which, for whatever we were planting was something like 4-6 inches apart. so like probably something like 400-450?+ stalks coming from the ~75? planted horizontally.
i used to work on a farm where we grew maybe 150 row feet of sugarcane. not really for a market, but mostly to propagate the cane and add to a stockpile for some TBD potential future use.
we didn’t have a canebreak or whatever, but sometimes we’d cut out hunks to chew on or squeeze into some tea.
it’s flavor brings a smile that says, “OK, i can see why this is a thing.”
Wtf is a ‘row feet’, is that something american?
rather than a unit-area, it’s unit-length. the equivalent of one row of cane planted, measuring 150 feet. bed width is not standardized, so depending on a crop’s spacing and a bed’s width, one might fit 2-3 or more rows in a bed.
But how many cane fit in a foot length?
we planted/propagated by laying the cane horizontally and burying it, because it will shoot up new cane from the internodes which, for whatever we were planting was something like 4-6 inches apart. so like probably something like 400-450?+ stalks coming from the ~75? planted horizontally.
Very cool! I still have no idea how are row foot is a useful way to measure sugar cane, but I’m learning lots