Correct, Guest, Texas (and elsewhere) had large cane brakes. A part of the farming operations at the Texas State Prison Farms well-known to Iron Head Baker, Lead Belly and many other prisoners. Land holdings of the prison system was 100,000 acres in 1972, but of course this includes grazing, forest and land devoted to other crops.

Cutting cane 'on the Brazos' ended in 1928 when disease killed the crop, and after that, raw sugar was imported for the mill.

In Hawai'i, driving by the sugarcane fields there, we would stop when the cane was ready and steal a cane to cut up and chew on. There I think they call them 'fields,' not 'brakes.'