While insiders know U.S.-grown rice is one of the most sustainable and responsibly grown crops in the world, telling that story to those who are unaware is increasingly important. To help recognize the crop’s unique environmental qualities and the women and men who improve rice’s sustainability every day, USA Rice launched a Sustainability Award in 2018 to identify and promote prime examples.
Read MoreNational Real Sugar Day is October 14, and the Louisiana sugar industry invites you to celebrate real sugar.
Sugar has been an important economic driver in Louisiana for many years, and as modern planting and harvesting techniques revolutionized the industry in the mid-1990s, we’re growing more sugarcane than ever before.
Read MoreState climatologist Barry Keim says Louisiana is dangerously dry. Shreveport has gone 23 straight days without any rainfall, Baton Rouge for 24, and New Orleans has had just a sprinkle in the past 26 days. He says three to four inches of rain would be normal for September.
Read MoreA burn ban is now in effect for Jeff Davis Parish, according to the Jefferson Davis Parish Police Jury.
This adds the parish to the growing list of areas currently under a burn ban due to dry conditions throughout the state.
Read MoreSouthwest Louisiana will receive an additional $46 million for coastal hurricane protection through the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act co-authored by U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy.
The funding will elevate about 200 structures in Calcasieu, Cameron and Vermillion parishes to the 100-year flood plain.
Read MoreRapides Parish is officially under a burn ban until further notice.
Read MoreOctober is a great time for local produce.
“You’ll see the market get more and more full as the month goes on,” says Darlene Rowland, executive director of BREADA, which operates the Red Stick Farmers Market. “We’ll have all sorts of greens, heirloom pumpkins, satsumas and a lot more produce that people get excited about.”
Read MoreA free Forestry Wildlife Field Day is scheduled for October 14 at 232 Brooks Road near Choudrant to give forest landowners an opportunity to meet foresters, and learn about forest health, managing forestland for wildlife, harvesting, and more.
Read MoreMerck Animal Health announced today the opening of a manufacturing facility for Merck Animal Health’s animal intelligence products in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The facility will broaden the company’s manufacturing capacity and capabilities by establishing a printing, production, and distribution facility of Allflex Livestock Intelligence identification ear tags.
Read MoreU.S. agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of U.S. domestic workers can fill seasonal farm jobs with temporary foreign workers through the H-2A visa program.
Six States accounted for about half of the H-2A jobs filled in 2021 certified: Florida, Georgia, Washington, California, North Carolina, and Louisiana.
Read MoreThe people at the Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission are always hard at work promoting the growers and produce professionals who provide people with delicious and nutritious sweet potatoes. But 2022 is a particularly special year for the commission as it is celebrating its 70th anniversary.
Read MoreLow water levels are limiting the amount of grain that can be shipped via barges on the Mississippi River.
Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says nearly 99% of the water in the Mississippi comes from northern states, but after little to no rain its hindering agriculture shipments.
Read MoreMa Nature continues to play a major role in the cattle market. Drought conditions forced many cow/calf producers to reduce their cow numbers or completely sell out in our neighboring states to the west.
Read MoreLast month USA Rice received funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cochran Fellowship Program (CFP) to host Central American rice industry professionals on a tour through rice growing regions in the mid-south. The primary goals of the CFP, named after the late U.S. Senator William Thad Cochran from Mississippi, are to aid in developing agricultural systems in the Fellows’ home countries and to strengthen and enhance agriculture trade linkages with the United States.
Read MoreMorgan Meaux, the Louisiana State 4-H President, and Paityn Martin, the Southwest Regional 4-H Representative joined News15 at Noon to share how viewers can celebrate National 4-H Week and how 4-H has had a positive impact on their lives.
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