Warm temperatures have returned and the cold weather appears to be behind us. So how did Louisiana’s strawberry crop do with a historic snowfall and last week’s freezing weather. Darryl Poche is the co-owner of Landry-Poche Strawberry Farm in Livingston Parish…
“We do have a crop cover that we cover things up with now. When we got snow, I got 4 and a half inches of snow which actually helped in a strange way because it insulates over the cover. My crop I may have lost 10%.”
Poche and his wife, a fourth-generation strawberry farmer, have been farming for 23 years and have seen harsher conditions, but says it looks like the worst done for this year.
“It’s looking really well. Right now if you look across my field and its almost solid white with blooms.”
Poche says as spring weather rolls in it will be a few short weeks before strawberries are gonna be ready to be picked.
“Anywhere from 14-18 days those will start getting ripe, and we’ll be pretty much in full season at that time.”
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