The Stories In The Sugar--The Vallot Family
American Sugarcane League
It’s fair to say the Grosse Isle community of Vermilion Parish is the “country” and it’s where the Vallot family has been farming sugarcane for five generations.
Monte Vallot, 57, and his brother Donnie, 64, share equal responsibility and manage the 3,200 acres of Vallot Farms in the area just north of Louisiana Highway 14 between Erath and Abbeville. They own about 400 of those acres. All of their land is in sugarcane; they wouldn’t have it any other way. They never raised cows or horses even though they grew up in a parish that is well-known as cattle country. They didn’t have chickens or pigs either. There’s a reason for that they said.
“Mama was a city lady,” Donnie explained with a grin.