Eighteen states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could affect their ability to regulate railroad crossings and the amount of time freight trains can block local roads.
The attorneys general argued that the problem of trains blocking roadways has become worse, as railroads use longer and longer trains to increase efficiency. “Blocked grade crossings have serious—sometimes life-threatening—consequences for everyday Americans,” they wrote.
Read MoreConsumers and businesses are seeing an increase in egg prices and an egg shortage at grocery stores.
The egg shortage has resulted in plenty of empty shelves and customers having to shell out more cash for the hard-to-find egg cartons.
According to the food market data company Urner Barry, the average price for eggs was $4.33 per dozen as of Tuesday.
Last year around this time, the price was around $1.33.
Read MoreLouisiana Crop Production Report – 2022 Annual Summary and Louisiana Rice and Grain Stocks Report released January 12, 2023,
Read MoreAgroconsult expects Brazil to produce record corn and soybean crops in 2022-23, despite dry weather in the far southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The firm expect Brazilian soybean production to reach 153.4 MMT, which is just below Conab’s official forecast of 153.5 MMT it forecast in December. Agroconsult projects total corn production at 130.9 MMT, including the first crop at 29.6 MMT and the safrinha crop at 101.3 MMT. In December, Conab pegged Brazil’s corn crop at 125.8 MMT, though that was based off an estimate of the first corn crop and projections for safrinha acreage and yield.
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease struck again in Tensas Parish and samples have steadily streamed in. Louisiana Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks deer program manager Johnathan Bordelon said the state’s second positive case of CWD was found four miles away from their first case and was confirmed Monday.
Bordelon said they have 512 samples from the CWD control area in Tensas Parish, Madison Parish and Franklin Parish.
Read MoreFarmer and rancher delegates to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 104th Convention today adopted policies to guide the organization’s work in 2023. Key topics ranged from expanding risk management programs and improving dairy pricing transparency to battling hunger.
Read MoreA traffic stop on I-49 in Rapides Parish was anything but routine when sheriff's deputies say the smell of marijuana turned into a massive discovery.
Read MoreGoodyear unveiled a tire with 90 percent sustainable materials at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week.
The new tire, which has passed all regulatory and internal tests for road use, makes use of sustainable products such as soybean oil, rice husks, and pine resin, in place of standard compounds.
Read MoreIn his 33 years of farming sugarcane, Ricky Gonsoulin had never had as good of a crop as the one he saw growing in his fields in 2022. And in 33 years, he had never lost so much as a stalk of sugarcane to a freeze.
But that unlikely scenario came to pass in late December when an arctic blast sent temperatures below freezing for three days across Louisiana.
Read MoreGov. John Bel Edwards will give the keynote address as he joins 20 researchers, five farmers and six certified crop advisors, all from Louisiana, who will speak at the upcoming Conservation Systems Conferences on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Crowne Plaza hotel conference center in Baton Rouge.
Read MoreLouisiana Wildlife Federation today announced the 22 members of the 2023 Edgar Veillon Conservation Leadership Corps (CLC). The participants are made up of students from colleges and universities in Louisiana, and make up the program’s fifth annual cohort.
Read MoreTim Walker may not be from Louisiana, but he certainly has some vested interests in the Pelican State’s rice industry. As general manager of HorizonAg, his company has championed the Clearfield, then, subsequently, the Provisia systems that have proven to be vital to Louisiana’s rice industry. He touted these offerings from the HorizonAg display booth at the 2022 U.S.A. Rice Outlook Conference held Dec. 7-9.
Read MoreU-Nichols Manalo, director of the National Corn Program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture, recently gave a presentation detailing his research during his time at LSU working with LSU AgCenter economist Naveen Adusumilli.
Read MoreThe 2023 American Farm Bureau is currently underway in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Leaders and members are gathering under one roof to discuss issues and how farmers can best overcome them. Tammi Arender is at the convention to catch up with ag industry leaders.
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