The Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) program is a federally subsidized insurance policy designed to help cattle producers manage price risk. The policy guarantees a price level for cattle at a specific future date. If actual prices at that time fall below the guaranteed price, the policy pays an indemnity equal to the difference. In this way, LRP establishes a price floor for cattle, similar to purchasing a futures put option.
Read MoreThe rice harvest is coming to a close, with farmers reporting an average yield for the season.
Tyler Musgrove, a rice extension specialist with the LSU AG Center, said this year’s yield report shows more variability from parish to parish than in previous years.
Read MoreThe 2026 corn and soybean harvest season will be remembered for low commodity prices and high production costs that created lackluster results both locally and throughout the state.
Read MoreCheck out the September edition of the Cow Country Reporter for the latest news and updates affecting the U.S. cattle industry, including Mexican cattle imports, the U.S./Mexico border reopening, screwworm and more.
Read MoreTexas isn't the only Gulf Coast state facing a crisis in the shrimping industry. The Louisiana Shrimp Association (LSA), a nonprofit coalition of commercial fishermen in the nation's top shrimp-producing state, drafted a petition earlier this week urging the Trump administration to throw it a lifeline.
Read MoreFor many years, farmers have battled leaf spot diseases caused by fungi in the genus Cercospora. And for almost as many years, plant pathologists have studied the diseases, searching for fungicides, growing practices and other ways to limit their negative effects on crops.
Read MoreThe American Relief Act, 2025, provides more than $16 billion in disaster relief payments to producers who suffered revenue, quality or production losses to crops, trees, bushes, or vines due to qualifying disaster events in calendar years 2023 and 2024.
Read MoreSeptember is here, and that means it’s time to celebrate National Rice Month (NRM)! Since 1991, when then-President George H.W. Bush signed a proclamation designating September as NRM, USA Rice has spent each year putting the U.S. rice industry front and center for consumers, retailers, and foodservice partners.
Read MoreAs sugarcane planting nears completion across south Louisiana and growers prepare for the start of harvest season, farmers are facing an additional challenge in their fields in the pasture mealybug.
Read MoreSugarcane farmers across Acadiana are wrapping up this year’s planting season, but a dry spell, high fuel prices, and pest problems in the fields have some growers bracing for a smaller harvest than last year.
Read MoreAmerican Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement regarding small refinery exemptions, which impact biofuel demand by exempting refineries from blending renewable fuel as required under the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Read MoreBroadband construction in Louisiana is advancing and moving quickly, with construction for nearly 15,000 broadband serviceable locations projected to be complete by the end of the first quarter of 2027 across 23 parishes.
Read MoreIn accordance with the emergency provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:962, and under the authority of R.S. 3:4608 and 4680, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry declares an emergency to exist and adopts by emergency process the attached regulations for the suspension of rules governing the sale of gasoline with ethanol blending limits and reid vapor pressure (RVP).
Read MoreRice imports are on the rise and U.S. stakeholders are leery about the potential consequences to national markets. Leaders from Riceland Foods and Producers Rice Mill met with U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, recently to discuss growing concerns over rising rice imports, international trade policy, and federal actions needed to protect the competitiveness of U.S. rice farmers.
Read MoreAs markets and growing conditions continue to disappoint producers across the country, turning profit on the farm remains a challenge. A closer look at the numbers suggests planting decisions play a role in farmers' ability to break even.
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