CPL lost a long-time member on October 31, 2022. Harvey Gonsoulin of New Iberia was a pioneer and a key player in helping to establish and grow the Louisiana Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (which CPL is a board member) to what it is today.
Read MoreIt is halftime for the Golden Boot Giving Challenge, as of mid-week the LSU College of Agriculture is in the lead with more donors than Arkansas' Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. This crowdfunding challenge takes place Nov. 5-12, 2022.
Each year, the LSU Tigers and Arkansas Razorbacks fight for the “Golden Boot” on the football field. Mirroring this rivalry, LSU and University of Arkansas are battling to see which college of agriculture has the most supporters.
Read MoreThe Socially Disadvantaged Farmer and Rancher Policy Research Center in partnership with the Southern Risk Management Education Center (SRMEC) and Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) are excited to invite you to a train-the-trainer to share program resources and overview of the recently announced program related to heirs' property.
Read MoreThe Louisiana Farm Service Agency’s State Emergency Board will convene Wednesday, November 9 to consider requesting a Secretarial Disaster Declaration from the United States Department of Agriculture for crop losses due to excessive rains in August of 2022.
Read MoreU.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack last week announced that the Biden-Harris Administration is investing $73 million in 21 grant projects through the first round of the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program.
Read MoreMarshall Hardwick is chatting with me from his truck, parked in front of his cotton field in Northeast Louisiana. After our call, he’ll begin harvesting the crop. Most years, he has no idea what the cotton will become: a T-shirt or a blanket, perhaps. But in a few months, these particular bolls will be transformed into thousands of pairs of luxury jeans.
Read MoreIn agriculture, for many, boots are not just a fashion accessory, but necessary.
The colleges of agriculture at the U of A and Louisiana State University are mirroring the "Battle for the Golden Boot" football game between the Razorbacks and Tigers with a philanthropic challenge.
Read MoreThe USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service says the number of grain barges being unloaded in New Orleans during September and October dropped significantly. An AMS report says the number of barges is 20-30 percent lower than in recent years. The slowdown coincides with river closures and restrictions on barge companies that reduced the bar tow.
Read MoreTwenty-four area cattle producers from four parishes are the newest graduates of the Louisiana Master Cattleman program.
The program started in 2004 as an effort to get the latest information regarding beef and dairy production to producers and make their operations economically and environmentally sustainable.
Read MoreOver the past week, USA Rice joined hundreds of other agriculture and business-focused organizations urging the Biden Administration and Congress to step in and find a resolution to avoid a potential rail labor strike or lockout.
Read MoreDuring a meeting this week (Nov. 1-2), the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank (often called “the Fed”) once again raised the rate at which the Fed lends to other banks, this time by 0.75% to about 3.75%, and indicated an intent to continue raising rates at future meetings. This has been a rapid run-up from near 0% in February.
The Fed’s purpose in raising rates is to slow down the economy until prices stop rising.
They may slow down the economy, but they won’t reduce inflation any time soon, if history is any lesson.
Read MoreThe price of diesel is up again this month and according to experts and will likely continue to climb.
Right now, most of Louisiana’s harvest is already over. But sugar cane’s harvest won’t be done until around January. Catherine Floyd helps run a local Sugarmill and says more increases in diesel prices will make it even harder for business.
Read MoreAmy Hale, Louisiana, was one of fifteen farm and ranch women leaders who graduated today from the fall session of Women’s Communications Boot Camp hosted by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Read MoreLawrence Alfred "Larry" Michaud passed away Sunday night, October 30, 2022, at St. Francis Hospital, Monroe, Louisiana from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. He worked as a reporter for the Baton Rouge State Times until 1981, then as Press Secretary for the Louisiana Department of Agriculture until his retirement in 2006.
Read MoreClick below for the market report from the latest Red River Livestock auction.
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