By Sam Irwin
American Sugarcane League
Sugarcane producer Keith Dugas of Assumption Parish loves farming. He loves everything about it.
He remembers watching his father, the late Lloyd Dugas, on the tractor and he couldn’t wait for his turn.
“My father came from a family of ten brothers and one sister,” Dugas said. “Four of the brothers farmed and then went on to other things as they got older.”
Farming during the elder Dugas’s time was different. It was certainly labor intensive, and
took a lot of hands to bring in a sugarcane crop. Other crops and livestock were grown as well. Moss picking was still a thing in Assumption