As the Louisiana Cattle Festival & Fair Association begins initiating community involvement opportunities in conjunction with festival promotion, a primary focus will be on engaging and supporting the youth of Vermilion Parish.
The Louisiana Cattle Festival would like to invite parish youth to create artwork showcasing Louisiana's cattle industry for an opportunity to be honored as the 2023 Festival’s "Featured Artist.
Read MoreFormer professional bull rider Jamon Turner has been giving kids in Shreveport an opportunity to learn about agriculture and now he's taking his Western Play Day on the road.
Restructured as Just Believe's Western Playground, the special clinic allows kids to take part in learning about different trades while playing games and winning prizes.
Read MoreThe winners of the 2023 LSU AgCenter 4-H and FFA State Rabbit Show have been announced.
Rodney Johnson, AgCenter agent in Rapides Parish, said the show, which was held at the State Evacuation Shelter in Alexandria on March 4, welcomed 485 exhibition rabbits and eight meat pens.
Hundreds of hard-working exhibitors showed off all the skills acquired through their rabbit project work.
Read MoreA suspect was arrested following the theft of livestock in Allen Parish.
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) says Bobbie. G Smith, 65, stole 70 heads of livestock three times during November and December 2022. Smith, from Thayer, Missouri, is also accused of failing to provide acceptable payment to a livestock vendor.
Read MoreOn Thursday, March 16, 2023 @ 5:30 p.m., the Evangeline Parish Cattleman’s Association, and the LSU AgCenter will host a Louisiana Beef Quality Assurance Certification (BQA) for all area cattle producers. “Beef Quality Assurance is a nationally coordinated, state implemented program that provides systematic information to U.S. beef producers and beef consumers of how common-sense husbandry techniques can be coupled with accepted scientific knowledge to raise cattle under optimum management and environmental conditions.
Read MoreThe Southern University's AgCenter is excited to celebrate it's 80th Annual Livestock show.
The school is the only HBCU who still continues the tradition of having a livestock show for its school of agriculture.
Read MoreClick below for the market report from the latest Red River Livestock auction.
Read MoreClick below for the market report from the latest Red River Livestock auction.
Read MoreThe Southern University AgCenter is hosting its 80th Annual State Livestock and Poultry Show March 2-4.
It’s happening at the Maurice A. Edmond Livestock Arena, Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70813.
Read MoreA horse that was among several stolen from an Ascension Parish property last week was abused and tortured so badly it had to be euthanized, according to the owner of the property from which the horses were taken.
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