Sustaining Family Legacies
“I want my children, if they choose to farm, to have the same opportunities that I had, if not maybe more.” 6th generation farmer Catherine Floyd’s family grows sugarcane on some of the same land in South-Central Louisiana that her ancestors farmed more than 100 years ago.
Outside of work, I’m an outdoorsman. I love being outside. Being able to produce a crop, helping feed the world and making the environment a better place, it’s win-win.”
We do things sustainably. That’s what keeps us going generation to generation. If we weren’t sustainable, we wouldn’t be passing this farm down to the fifth generation or sixth generation.”