As he rattles along the highway between Houston and Louisiana in his 2003 white Dodge truck, Thomas Rozelle is fielding back-to-back phone calls about all the dead crawfish. He can barely keep up with every conversation. Restaurant owners are freaking out, farmers are panicking, all the while Rozelle – a 30-year-old crawfish wholesaler from Pasadena – is trying to keep his head straight.
Read MoreJoe Nicosia, a Cordova, Tenn., merchant, was elected National Cotton Council (NCC) chairman for 2024 during the organization’s annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Patrick Johnson, a producer from Tunica, Mississippi, will serve as vice chairman for 2024.
Read MoreIf you have been to a crop meeting lately, you’ve likely heard an update on proposals put out by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address compliance issues with the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Read MoreWhen someone is sick, a doctor often will write a prescription to cure the ailment. In modern-day agriculture, high-tech tools can help farmers write different kinds of prescriptions to address problems in their fields — like determining how much and where fertilizer should be applied to be most effective.
Read MoreConcordia Parish has 373 farms which encompass 301,766 acres of land, according to the 2022 Census of Agriculture.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the results last week. The document spans more than six million data points about America’s farms and ranches and the people who operate them down to the parish level.
Read MoreGovernor Jeff Landry sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeking federal assistance in regards to the crawfish industry.
The letter, sent to Secretary Tom Vilsack, is seeking federal assistance to address the recent drought that is affecting the domestic crawfish industry and caused prices to skyrocket. The request would expand the Emergency Livestock Assistance Program to include drought as a cause of loss for farm-raised fish, including crawfish.
Read MoreThis is going to be a year of surviving for Brant Lamm and his family. He and his brother are farmers and together they manage 3000 acres of land, with 1500 of those acres dedicated to crawfish. While that may sound like a lot, they, along with other Louisiana crawfish farmers, are struggling to make ends meet.
“We spent several hundred dollars an acre flushing and fertilizing all summer long and it seems like it was all for nothing at this point,” said Lamm.
Read MoreThe Lafourche-Assumption-Terrebonne Parish USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) is relocating to 525 St. Mary Street in Thibodaux.
The phone number for the office is (985) 446-6293. Office hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Read MorePresident Miguel Díaz-Canel received agricultural secretaries from several U.S. states and representatives of that sector visiting Cuba, of whom he stressed that he has always worked to find ways to break down walls.
It is a pleasure and a satisfaction to have them present in Cuba in such an important composition, said Díaz-Canel, quoted by the Granma newspaper.
Read MoreLieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, along with the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, granted an official pardon to Sherbin the Crawfish during the 8th Annual Pardoning of the Crawfish event. For a second year, the annual event took place at Parc des Ponts Breaux along Bayou Teche in Breaux Bridge, the crawfish capital of the world.
Read MoreEntergy Louisiana announces its renewable power is exceeding coal in energy production for the first time. Director of Resource Planning Laura Beauchamp says this is a significant milestone for the company.
“We have a commitment to reach net zero by 2050 and certainly provide cleaner environment and cleaner resources for our customers. We see significant addition to our solar portfolio over the next five years.”
Read MoreAccording to the USDA, Louisiana lost two-thousand farms between 2017 and 2022, but the amount of land used to farm has stayed about the same. Neil Melancon with the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation says smaller farms are finding it impossible to remain economically viable, so we are just seeing bigger farms.
Read MoreChildren and adults alike can learn about the importance of agriculture at upcoming AgMagic events on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge and in the Greater New Orleans area.
Read MoreThis set of material on USDA FSA ARC-CO and PLC farm programs is intended to present the operational mechanics of each program as well as identify work done by the LSU AgCenter to create Microsoft Excel based decision tools that allow growers to estimate their potential farm program payment under alternative MYA price and yield conditions.
Read MoreManufacturers are under pressure to improve sustainability and reduce textile waste, which is a problem globally.
The goal of sustainability in cotton is moving beyond the field to the entire supply chain. The focus is shifting to put more focus on the manufacturing process and chemistry.
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