We owned cane fields and played in them as kids. It's easy to ride down the cane breaks that are driveable paths for trucks and 4-wheelers. I believe it's a challenge to search for a person/body. I hope they’re using dogs. Searchers would have to walk down acres of cane because a 4-wheeler cannot go down the rows of cane.
The cane crop is tall, bushy, and thick at this time. Good farmers with good soil can sometimes plant double stalk stubs on a row. A couple of weeks ago, our area had bad weather that knocked down a lot of the cane. It's uprighting now. Once harvesting begins, the cane is cut into a huge combine, burned to get rid of debris, and loaded on wagons/trailers, and hauled to the mill for grinding.
