Louisiana strawberry farmers regularly contend with a multitude of challenges, including labor costs, unfavorable weather conditions, insect and mite pests, and plant diseases.
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Coca-Cola's decision to launch a new Coke product this fall made with U.S.-grown cane sugar is already sweetening the stakes for Louisiana.
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PETA is suing a popular festival for “steaming lobsters alive.”
PETA is suing the Maine Lobster Festival, saying that by steaming live lobsters, the festival is violating Maine’s law prohibiting the torture and torment of animals.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson and his staff visited rice country this week to spend time with members of Louisiana's agriculture industry, including several rice growers and rice industry representatives, and the Speaker’s staff was fortunate to catch rice harvest in action.
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From June 23 to June 26, Southern University hosted the Creating Healthy Enjoyable Foods, or CHEF Camp, for Baton Rouge-area students. The camp taught participants how to find, prepare and cook healthy foods along with important safety and cooking tips in the kitchen.
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Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) delivered a letter to President Trump today urging increased tariffs on rice imports from Thailand, which are eroding markets for Louisiana farmers.
Louisiana’s sugarcane growers made their mark in more ways than one at this year’s Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Convention in New Orleans. From important conversations on federal food policy to field-level conservation breakthroughs and a strong showing at the annual awards banquet, it was a week that reminded everyone just how vital sugarcane is to the state’s agricultural community.
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With combines parked and harvest briefly on hold, Louisiana farmers made their way from across the state to Lincoln Hall in Ruston to celebrate one of the most significant agricultural wins in recent memory—the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a sweeping budget and policy package championed by U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made several stops in north Louisiana Wednesday (July 30) including a townhall meeting with Louisiana Farm Bureau.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson spent Wednesday touring Northeast Louisiana, promoting the newly passed federal budget bill and addressing key issues from agriculture to education.
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Two Louisiana congressmen from opposite sides of the aisle are coming together to try to help the state’s crawfishermen.
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Friday, July 18th, Louisiana GLCI held a baleage workshop, hosted by Delta Dairy in Baskin, LA, where 20 attendees learned all about the hows and whys of making baleage, including a feature of all the equipment Ted Miller and his family use to get the job done. Delta Dairy's nutritionist, Matt Jewart with Innovative Dairy Nutrition, alongside Ted, laid out the reasons why baleage is a good fit for the operation. PTI Equipment brought a hay cutter and McHale baler, to showcase the features of each. Hustler unroller rep Jared Miller, demonstrated how the dairy unrolls the baleage into rows for the cattle to eat.
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Bright and early, farmers from across Acadiana convened for the annual Sugarcane Field Day, hosted by the LSU AgCenter. They focused on innovative farming practices aimed at environmental sustainability.
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