re: Who owns all the sugar cane farmland by Thibodaux and Hwy 90 area

The land you can see from Hwy 90 in Raceland was most recently owned by Prudential Life Insurance- not 100%, but they may have divested that to MA Patout & Sons who own the Raceland mill.

For the most part, all the cane land in LA is owned by old families and rented out to sugarcane farmers for a percentage of the crop. The mill gets a percent, the landowner gets a percent, and the farmer keeps the rest.

Over the last few years, some farmers have been able to buy some land for themselves, but it is a VERY small percentage of their total acreage- like 100-500 acres out of 4000 acres total farmed.