Congressman Higgins Meets with Crawfish and Rice Farmers
By Alece Courville
KLFY-TV 10
Rice and crawfish farmers have seen the devastating impact COVID-19 has had on their businesses.
“The impact of COVID as a virus has been limited family to family, but the economic impact that it has brought destruction, that was brought upon by mandate closures, no family has escaped that,” Congressman Higgins told News 10.
Louisiana Farm Bureau says they are working with LSU AG Center to put a dollar amount on revenue loss because of COVID-19 to help with relief.
“Averages say prices dropped about dollar and half from December to May and 81 cents a pound because of COVID-19 and market closures,” Andy Brown with the Farm Bureau, said.