The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana is warning about the “coastal fiscal cliff” looming a decade from now, when money for coastal work from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill dries up.
A PAR report published on Monday highlights what the end of the settlement for the 2010 oil spill will mean for Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and coastal restoration work that’s critical for southern parishes.
Read MoreLouisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is getting involved in a legal battle over recreational fishing in the state.
He has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a National Marine Fisheries Service rule that deals with quotas for Gulf of Mexico red grouper fish.
Read MoreClick below for the market report from the latest Kinder Livestock Auction.
Read MoreIn the fourth grade, Luke Parks became determined to start his own business and share his family’s delicious recipes with the world.
Now a junior at Zachary High School, Luke’s longtime goal is becoming a reality with help from the LSU AgCenter Food Innovation Institute (FOODii).
Read MoreCongressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) will host a town hall meeting in New Iberia on Thursday, August 25 to discuss issues facing South Louisiana. He will answer questions and provide an update on his work in Congress. The event is open to the public.
Read MoreRain is a welcome sight in northeast Louisiana these days, so when storm clouds gathered the morning of Aug. 18, sweet potato farmers who have been contending with dry conditions all summer breathed a sigh of relief.
Read MoreFormerly known as the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), the budget reconciliation bill, after extensive negotiations and reworking, was finalized as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, totaling roughly $770 billion. Since the budget reconciliation process was used, the bill only needed a simple majority in the Senate to pass, meaning it only needed 51 votes, rather that the 60 votes often needed to avoid procedural blocks.
Read MoreUnified by their commitment to helping southern rice farmers manage and steward the Provisia Rice System, a group of industry leaders met recently at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station to discuss Best Management Practices (BMP) to minimize the threat of weedy rice outcrosses developing to the ACCase-inhibiting herbicide technology.
Read MoreAt the very end of what was a bearish week, Chicago rice futures turned sharply higher on Friday. Ahead of the close, the September contract was trading 58 cents higher at one point and on track to erase all of this week’s losses. Harvest progress is now a key focal point for the rice market.
Read MoreA punishing drought in Texas could be a boon for cotton farmers in Louisiana and Mississippi, helping fuel a rebound in the fluffy fiber after historic lows in the previous two years.
The dry spell affecting much of the West has wiped out hundreds of thousands of acres of cotton in Texas, by far the nation's biggest producer.
Read MoreGov. John Bel Edwards is announcing the state will dedicate $100 million in federal funds to a Design Support Program for 28 flood mitigation projects and another $100 million to a Round 2 funding opportunity for local and regional projects. This follows the unanimous approval of the plan by the Council on Watershed Management which met last Thursday.
Read MoreNearly one-third of college students are likely to face food insecurity in some capacity. International students are a population most likely to be affected.
Two graduate students in the LSU School of Nutrition and Food Sciences have taken notice of food insecurity among international students and are looking to make an impact on LSU.
Read MoreIn June of 2021, a 14-year-old boy pulled a gun and fatally shot 32-year old Donovan Reed at a graduation party in Eunice, a city in St. Landry Parish.
Earlier this summer, two teens were shot and killed in the parking lot of a Eunice convenience store.
Read MoreLouisiana rough rice stocks in all positions on August 1, 2022, totaled 2.68 million cwt, down 8 percent from August 1, 2021.
Read MoreThe National Transportation Safety Board has released new details about the crop duster that crashed near Cheneyville on August 2, 2022, which caused the death of its pilot, William Gill Pias.
While this report does not list a cause for the crash, it outlines witness testimony and the reason Pias was in the air that day.
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