The Thirty-Ninth Annual Assumption Parish Field Day was held on Tuesday, July 22, 2008. The field program was held at Arcement Farms and the hall program was presented at the Assumption Parish LSU AgCenter Office in Napoleonville. The program was sponsored by the Assumption Parish Farm Bureau and the LSU AgCenter. Presiding over the program were Gerald Boudreaux, Assumption Parish Field Day Chairman and farmer, and Rick Louque, Assumption Parish County Agent.
Rick Louque presented awards to the following Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers to:
Tenth Place – Dupre and Landry Farms, Inc.
Ninth Place – D & D Planters, Inc.
Eighth Place – Naquin Brothers, Inc.
Seventh Place – Arcement Farms, Inc.
Sixth place – Robichaux Farms, Inc. (not pictured)
Fifth Place – Trinity Farms, Inc.
Fourth Place – Carmouche Planting Company, Inc.
Third Place – Woods Farms, Inc.
Second Place – Blanchard Farms, Inc.
First Place – Glenwood Plantation LLC
Gene Adolph, Assumption Parish Farm Bureau President, presented Patrick Cancienne, Jr. the 2008 U. B. Simoneaux Achievement Award.
Lance Thibodeaux of Thibodaux Brothers Farm received the 2008 Assumption Parish Field Day Young Farmer Award from Craig Naquin, last year’s recipient. (not pictured)
| | Danny Landry and Henry Dupre of Dupre and Landry Farms, Inc. received an award for Tenth place in the Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers. |
| | Mark Bergeron and Don Bergeron of D & D Planters, Inc. received an award for Ninth Place in the Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers. |
| | Mark Naquin, Craig Naquin and Gerald Naquin of Naquin Brothers, Inc. received an award for Eighth Place in the Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers. |
| | Ashley Arcement, Andre Arcement, Daniel Arcement and Richard Arcement of Arcement Farms, Inc. received an award for Seventh Place in the Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers. |
| | Gary Gravois of Trinity Farms, Inc. received an award for Fifth Place in the Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers. |
| | | Benji Carmouche, L. J. Carmouche and Lenny Carmouche received an award for Fourth Place in the Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers. |
| | Austin and Eugene Woods of Woods Farms, Inc. received an award for Third Place in the Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers |
| | Gene Blanchard of Blanchard Farms, Inc. received an award for Second Place in the Top Ten Assumption Parish sugarcane producers. |
| | Will Thibaut and Raymond Russo of Glenwood Plantation LLC received an award for First Place in the Top Ten Assumption parish sugarcane. |
| | Patrick Cancienne, Sr. receiving the 2008 U. B. Simoneaux Achievement Award from Gene Adolph, Assumption Parish Farm Bureau President. |
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