The Cotton Research and Promotion Program (the Program) has received a report card, of sorts, providing strong evidence of a remarkable return on the industry’s investment.
The report shows the Program is enhancing revenue, improving profitability for growers and importers, and helping reduce the costs of government commodity programs.
Read MoreHere is the recipe that the U.S. Department of Labor used to create the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) Methodology for the Temporary Employment of H-2A Nonimmigrants in Non-Range Occupations in the United States final rule.
Read MoreFour Louisiana parishes ranked in the top 10 in the U.S. in terms of percentage of population lost between 2021 and 2022, according to new Census estimates released Thursday.
St. John the Baptist Parish, Terrebonne Parish and Plaquemines Parish ranked two, three and four, respectively, among U.S. counties that lost residents, the estimates show.
Read Morehe Agriculture Department has doubled the number of staff tracking foreign land purchases and is taking another look at past transactions after a three-year gap in the department’s imposition of disclosure penalties, Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday.
The department assessed no penalties for violations of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act Violations between 2015 and 2018 due to low staffing levels in the office tasked with enforcing the law, which requires foreign investors to file a form with the Farm Service Agency detailing their land acquisitions and dispositions.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) encourages urban producers, innovative producers and other stakeholders to submit comments for and virtually attend the fifth public meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (Committee) on April 18, 2023.
Read MoreIf you pick anything that has to do with Cajun Culture and Louisiana agriculture, you can bet there's a festival for it.
In Louisiana, we have a couple of Crawfish Festivals, the Sugar Cane Festival, the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, the Shrimp Festival, Festival International, Festivals Acadiens, Le Festival de Mardi Gras a Lafayette...even a Fried Chicken Festival.
Read MoreThe Sixth Annual Acadiana Po-Boy Festival Returns to Parc Sans Souci on Saturday, April 1st. JoElle Judice stopped by News15 at Noon to share the details of the weekend event.
Read MoreLast month the faculty of the LSU AgCenter Audubon Sugar Institute won multiple awards and honors at the 31st International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Congress in Hyderabad, India.
Awards can act as a barometer and prove that the institute’s work has merit, said Gillian Eggleston, director of the institute, who presented research findings and received a prestigious honor at the conference.
Read MoreRussia said top agricultural commodities trader Cargill Inc. will stop exporting its grain, adding to uncertainty over the future of Black Sea crop shipments.
As the biggest wheat exporter, Russian grain is vital to global crop trade and food supplies. A bumper harvest there last year helped wheat futures drop more than 40% from a record reached just after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Although Cargill is a big exporter of Russian wheat and a huge Western crop merchant, the government said the firm’s decision shouldn’t affect overall shipments from the country.
Read MoreChevron Renewable Energy Group is expanding its renewable diesel production facility in Geismar, Louisiana at an estimated cost of $950 million, with full operability in 2024. Upon completion the fuel produced at Geismar will annually reduce CO2 emissions by up to 2.8 million metric tons, or the equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from 7.1 billion miles driven by an average passenger vehicle.
Read MoreThe May NY/ICE contract tested the lower end of its range between 78 and 88 cents/lb, which has held values since November. After failing to break below 80 cents/lb in the middle of February, prices rebounded to levels near 85 cents/lb. before the end of last month and have traded between 82 and 85 cents/lb through early March.
Read MoreLSU School Of Veterinary Medicine received a $2.2 million investment from the Louisiana Legislature amid a national veterinarian shortage.
The investment from the Louisiana Legislature will assist the veterinarian school in accommodating the needs of a larger class. The goal is to help nearly double the school's admissions from 120 to 200 students.
Read MoreThe tables heaped with hot crawfish ran down the middle of the dancefloor at the Maple Leaf Bar, forming a long straight line. But what Jason Seither saw was a full circle, one built on Louisiana food traditions, culinary gusto and gratitude expressed through crawfish and measured by the ton.
Read MoreDionne Toombs, acting director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, visited the LSU AgCenter on March 27 as part of her tour of land-grant universities.
Read MoreOn March 17, 2023, a Natchitoches Parish man was apprehended in New Orleans by the United States Marshal Service Violent Offender Task Force.
Billy Ellerbe, Jr., of Natchitoches, was apprehended as a result of warrants for separate counts of arson by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) and the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office (NPSO).
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