Meet Eddie Drew Lewis III, a fifth-generation sugarcane farmer in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. Lewis' grandfather gave him one rule when he started farming full time -- to always have crop insurance. That sage advice has proven to be essential on Lewis' farm because he’s experienced multiple droughts and freezes during the past few years.
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Eddie Lewis is a fifth-generation sugarcane farmer in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
Eddie drives a tractor with his daughter.
The Lewis brothers grow more than 2,000 acres of sugarcane.
Eddie Lewis speaks with Roddric Bell, director of the Risk Management Agency’s regional office in Jackson, Mississippi.
Eddie hopes to pass the farm on to his children.
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