The Livestock Price and Production Summary shows trends for cattle, poultry and pork prices.
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Baton Rouge-based Capitol City Produce is investing $22 million to expand its distribution center on Commercial Avenue to help support growing demand.
According to an announcement from Louisiana Economic Development, the expansion will create 45 new jobs and will include the construction of a new refrigerated warehouse as well as dock and office space to bolster its regional restaurant, retail and commercial food supply services.
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On Saturday, June 3, the Louisiana Cattle Festival & Fair Association hosted a new, unique event to kick off the 2023 festival season while staying true to the Association’s core purpose of celebrating the cattle industry.
The annual “Brand the Barn” event highlighted a longstanding tradition for many cattle producers and ranchers, called branding, but with a new twist of permanently burning individual brands into the Louisiana Cattle Festival-owned venue, The Red Barn, in Abbeville.
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Amid the many exciting announcements given during the Louisiana Cattle Festival’s recent “Brand the Barn” event was the unveiling of the 73rd Festival’s official poster and introduction of the inaugural “Featured Artist,” a new opportunity to showcase the talent of youth while bringing attention and awareness to the Louisiana Cattle Festival and statewide industry.
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Happy Raptor Distilling, a New Orleans-based craft rum distillery, is proud to announce the expansion of its signature line of 504Syrups. The expansion includes the addition of two new varieties of 504Syrups - cucumber mint and lavender lemon peppercorn - as well as the increased availability of continental shipping throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
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The Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival in New Iberia made a big announcement yesterday, the entertainment lineup for this year's festivities.
Once again organizers have put together another great mix of local and regional talent over two days of the festival.
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Another sign of the chaos in the final hours of the state legislature last week: a big cut in funding for a new terminal at the Port of New Orleans. Governor John Bel Edwards says he is not happy with the cut.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation signed a memorandum of understanding with CLAAS of America, providing even more farmers and ranchers the right to repair their own farm equipment. The MOU follows similar agreements AFBF entered with John Deere, CNH Industrial Brands (which includes Case IH and New Holland), AGCO and Kubota. Combined, the five MOUs cover approximately three quarters of the agricultural machinery sold in the United States.
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Congresswoman Julia Letlow (LA-05) gave an opening statement to the House Appropriations Committee regarding the Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture Appropriations Bill. Congresswoman Letlow made clear her support for the Bill, and highlighted numerous reasons why its contents are needed for her constituents in Louisiana.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation submitted multiple recommended reforms of Federal Milk Marketing Orders today to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and encouraged the department to move forward with a long-overdue hearing on federal milk pricing. The goal is to modernize milk pricing, protect dairy farmers from unfair treatment and ensure consumers have access to affordable fresh milk and dairy products.
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Click below for the market report from the latest Red River Livestock Auction.
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The Louisiana County Agricultural Agents Association met in Gonzales June 4 to 7 for its annual meeting and professional improvement conference. The meeting culminated with an awards banquet highlighting the achievements of LCAAA members throughout the year.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is updating the Emergency Relief Program (ERP) Phase Two to provide a method for valuing losses and accessing program benefits to eligible producers of certain crops, including grapes grown and used by the same producer for wine production or forage that is grown, stored and fed to livestock, that do not generate revenue directly from the sale of the crop.
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The 1990 Farm Bill created the 2501 Program to help underserved farmers, ranchers, and foresters, who have historically experienced limited access to USDA programs and services. The 2014 Farm Bill expanded the 2501 Program to include veterans. The 2501 Program is officially called Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program.
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Louisiana State University Extension Entomologist Blake Wilson has two production scenarios: southwest fields where farmers rotate rice with crawfish and fields in the northeast part of the state where row crops dominate the acreage.
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