By Kyle Peveto
LSU AgCenter
In St. Landry Parish, where soybeans, rice and sugarcane typically flourish, a new crop is rising high above one field.
On a 12-acre plot in the south Louisiana parish, Pat Deshotels and Matthew Indest have grown hemp three times, but this crop — standing thick in the field with tall, slender stalks leading to bunches of green leaves — is their most successful.