Since 1960, Mansura has hosted the Cochon de Lait Festival to celebrate the town.
Cochon de Lait, or suckling pig in English, is the main attraction at the festival, with pigs being roasted overnight on the first day of the festival. Other classic cajun dishes are also made at the festival making it a unique culinary experience.
Read MoreThe LSU AgCenter Northeast Research Station held a Wildlife Forum and Field Day Friday morning.
Private landowners and stakeholders were in attendance to listen to updates on chronic wasting disease, feral hogs and habitat management in Louisiana.
Read MoreHarvest aid application can expedite soybean (Glycine max) harvest and increase effi-ciency through both weed and crop desiccation and has become a common practicein Louisiana soybean production systems.
Read MoreA recent decision by a Louisiana appellate court to uphold the state's “Truth in Labeling of Food Products Act” has been hailed as a victory for consumers and the agriculture industry. The 3-0 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans was made in response to a constitutional challenge by plant-based meat substitute company Tofurky, which argued that the law violated its First Amendment rights to free speech.
Read MoreThis report contains the results from the 2022 December Agricultural and Row Crops County Agricultural Production surveys
Read MorePresident Joe Biden is wading into the high-stakes negotiations over the farm bill, amid growing concerns the debt limit stand-off could knock that must-pass piece of legislation off track.
Biden has invited a small, bipartisan group of lawmakers to the White House Thursday to discuss the upcoming farm bill reauthorization, according to four people familiar with the plans who were granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations.
Read MoreVernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft says he personally responded to PETA complaints of alleged malnourishment of cattle on a property in Leesville, Louisiana.
An article posted to PETA’s website claimed a property on Scott Road had “been strewn with the carcasses of dozens of cows in varying states of decomposition in the past and reportedly now contains some 30 live cows, half of whom are severely underweight.”
Read MoreThe Louisiana Shrimpers Association held a rally at the Louisiana State Capitol for shrimpers early Thursday, May 11.
More than 100 people showed up to get lawmakers’ attention, blaming imports for overcrowding the seafood industry and pushing shrimpers out of business.
Read MoreThey were born and raised in captivity, but as they slowly slithered away from their handlers and disappeared into gopher holes in the Kisatchie National Forest, the group of Louisiana pine snakes appeared to be right at home.
The five pine snakes bred at the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee were released into the Kisatchie in early May as part of an ongoing conservation effort.
Read MoreUSDA’s March 31-Prospective Plantings report showed U.S. farmers intend to increase corn acres from 88.6 million in 2022 to 92.0 million in 2023. Of the 3.4-million-acre national increase, 865,000 acres or about 25%, are in the South: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Of these 13 states, 10 show increases of 10% or more.
Read MoreNearly 150 attendees focused on solutions to food insecurity throughout the state gathered to share ideas at the Louisiana Charitable Food Summit held May 2 at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Read MoreThe Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s (LDAF) Livestock Brand Commission will host its next saddle microchipping event Friday, May 26, from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. It will be held at the LSU AgCenter’s West Feliciana office located at 10032 West Feliciana Parkway in St. Francisville, Louisiana.
Read MoreThe Louisiana Women in Agriculture Group (LWAG) awards a woman with the title of Farmer of the Year at its annual conference that is held in Alexandria. At this year’s April 2023 LWAG Conference, Carlyle Sapp Roberson was awarded the Farm Bureau sponsored Farmer of the Year Award.
Read MoreA coalition of organizations in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi will use a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote improved and equitable health and economic outcomes in the Mississippi Delta regions of those states, the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center (SU Ag Center) announced Thursday, May 11.
Read MoreThe House Agriculture Committee advanced a resolution to create a task force to study the impact of using farmland for solar energy developments.
House Concurrent Resolution 45, written by Rep. Phillip DeVillier, R-Eunice, stated that the Louisiana Solar Siting Task Force would “study the impact of, and alternatives to, locating solar energy developments on farmland.”
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