Disaster-Weary Gulf Shrimpers, Louisiana Rice Farmers Await Hurricane Laura
by Sam Bloch, Jessica Fu, H. Claire Brown
The Counter
Farmers in the region have been preparing for the storm by harvesting rice through the night and moving livestock to higher ground. The Louisiana Farm Bureau has established a hay clearinghouse that will be able to connect ranchers whose cattle are displaced by the storm to farmers who have extra land and hay. Crawfish farmers say they are concerned that prolonged flooding might impact the females’ ability to reproduce.