The U.S. Federal Transportation Policy is a disjointed, bureaucratic hodgepodge of restrictions and requirements lacking consistency across the states, imposed under the extortive threat of federal funding losses.
What weighs more? A ton of milk or a ton of logs?
Read MoreLouisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain talked to a St. Mary Chamber luncheon audience Wednesday about one state department. But he might have taken a line from “A Tale of Two Cities.”
For Louisiana farmers and the Agricultural and Forestry Department, this can be the best of times and the worst of times.
Read MoreUSA Rice recently hosted a delegation of six Central American retailers and distributors from Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica for a week-long trade mission through rice country in the mid-south.
The tour included two main stops in Memphis, Tennessee, and Lafayette, Louisiana, where participants met with USA Rice members and industry representatives.
As he prepares to move into the Governor's Mansion, Attorney General Jeff Landry will get advice from 14 committees comprised of influential business figures, major GOP donors, a Democratic district attorney and the incoming Republican insurance commissioner, among others.
Agriculture, Fisheries & Land Management: Joel Broussard, an oil and gas executive and outdoorsman.
Read MoreThe face of the Harvest of the Month series on Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Crystal Besse does her homework to ensure she nails the history and culture of her adopted home.
Besse followed a career in public health from her native Tennessee to Louisiana, and five years ago she became director of Seeds to Success: The Louisiana Farm to School Program.
Read MoreIn Grant Parish, the pecan is the king of the crop. But just like every crop this year, pecan farmers are bracing for the record drought’s impacts.
“All we can control is our inputs. That’s what we can buy at the store and put out here. We can’t control the weather,” said Ben Littlepage, owner of Littlepage Farms on Highway 8 outside of Colfax.
Read MoreIn New Orleans and much of the South, crawfish is more than just a delicacy; it is a worshiped food group of its own, and one that residents mark on their calendars as its season. For many families in Louisiana and the surrounding areas, it serves as the centerpiece of family gatherings, graduation celebrations, and holidays like Mardi Gras. During these times, you can smell the crawfish boiling in practically everyone’s backyard.
Read MoreThe nation has a new Speaker of the House, and he’s someone already trusted by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. NCBA’s Vice President of Government Affairs, Ethan Lane said though Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana has not served on the Agriculture Committee, he has a strong voting record when it comes to agriculture.
Read MoreWhen firefighters rushed from across the state to battle a massive wildfire in Beauregard Parish, a firefighter from Texas noticed something unsettling about his Louisiana colleagues: most of them had no idea what they were doing.
“They’d say ‘we’re just going to go hit it,’ and want to rush in,” said Taylor Lott, a volunteer firefighter in Beauregard who trained in wildland firefighting in his home state. “No, in the conditions we’re having and the fires we’re having, you can’t do that. There’s just a lot they didn’t understand.”
Read MoreNew restrictions proposed on future large-scale solar farms in St. James Parish would require land buffers tougher than what's been required for industrial plants and tank farms seeking to move into or expand in the Mississippi River parish.
The minimum 500-foot buffer from homes, which is also tougher than what some other river parishes have adopted for solar farms, would be one piece of St. James' first ever solar farm law.
Read MoreWith Halloween upon us, many families still need to pick out the perfect pumpkin for their front porches. At Mrs. Heather's Pumpkin patch in Hammond, dry weather during the summer hurt crops in the fall.
Read More“When is the best time to spray fungicides?” is a question that is central to managing many plant diseases. A good answer, however, is rarely simple and several factors, from the economics of fungicide applications to the biology of the pathogen, need to be considered.
Read MoreCharles Maurice Gravois, Sr., age 95, of Vacherie, Louisiana passed away on October 25, 2023. He was born in Vacherie on June 23, 1928, to Ozane J., Sr. and Louise Brazan Gravois and was the youngest son in a family of 13 children. He was raised on Blackberry Farms, and in turn raised his family on the same farm.
Read MoreA free estate planning presentation — “Who Gets My Land When I Die? And What Can I Do About It?” — will be held at 5 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Ringgold Library in Ringgold, Louisiana. Attorney Paul Spillers will provide valuable information on wills and trusts, asset protection, tax consequences, property ownership, and estate planning tools. Mr. Spillers is senior counsel at the Law Offices of Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh in Monroe, Louisiana. He specializes in estate planning and probate; litigation; oil, gas, and mineral law; taxation, and timber law. This workshop is sponsored by Trailblazer RC&D.
Read MoreThe U. S Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide more than $3 billion to commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2022. Eligible impacted producers can apply for financial assistance through the Emergency Relief Program (ERP) 2022. The program will help offset the financial impacts of crop yield and value losses from qualifying disasters occurring in 2022.
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