The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is celebrating National Hunting and Fishing Day by hosting events at four locations across the state this Saturday. LDWF Secretary Madison Sheahan says the event showcases what LDWF does daily.
“Last year we saw a little over a thousand people at our Woodworth property, as well as our Baton Rouge, and Minden as well as Bobcau. So we are really excited about this weekend.”
Read MoreSeptember is National Honey Month, a tradition started by the National Honey Board in 1989, according to the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture.
In the United States, honey collection season typically ends in September as the bees begin to secure their hives and prepare for winter.
Read MoreAccording to The United States Department of Agriculture, 1 in 7 people in Louisiana struggle with access to healthy foods. Beauregard Parish is one of the most affected by food insecurity.
”If you’re comparing it to other communities around the country it’s not very good. We have one of the highest rates of food insecurity,” Paul Scelfo, Chief Regional Officer of Second Harvest Food Bank, said.
Read MoreOn Monday, September 23, 2024, the Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana received a donation in honor of September being National Rice Month. Officials reported that 4Sisters Rice Farm of Mer Rouge, La. donated several pallets of rice.
Read MoreThe LSU AgCenter is taking significant steps to address obesity in Louisiana. More than 35% of adults in the state are affected by this condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New CDC maps show that Louisiana is one of 23 states where adult obesity rates are at or above 35%.
Read MoreThe Seafood Processing Demonstration Lab is inviting people involved in seafood production to attend an open house at the facility on Oct. 22.
The lab is located at the LSU AgCenter Iberia Research Station, and the event will start at 10 a.m. and end at 2 p.m. Lunch and product sampling will be provided. The address is 603 LSU Bridge Road in Jeanerette
Read MoreAs of Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) long-awaited updates to the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Farm Loan Programs are officially in effect. These changes, part of the Enhancing Program Access and Delivery for Farm Loans rule, are designed to increase financial flexibility for agricultural producers, allowing them to grow their operations, boost profitability, and build long-term savings.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced sugar loan rates for crop year 2024 (fiscal year 2025).
USDA offers commodity loans to processors of sugar beets and domestically grown sugarcane to provide interim financing to producers so that sugar can be stored after harvest when market prices are typically low and then sold later when price conditions are more favorable.
Read MoreIn February 2020, Kerry Heafner left his office in West Monroe and drove about an hour northwest to the Union Parish hamlet of Marion to carry out one of his ordinary duties as an LSU AgCenter horticulture agent: giving a talk to a garden club.
Heafner’s visit that day, however, took a turn for the extraordinary when a woman named Lula Shurtleff approached him after his presentation.
Read MoreSaddle up, because Southern's second annual Calf Roping on the Bluff is this weekend.
The roping event will be held on Sept. 29 at the Maurice A. Edmond Livestock Arena.
Read MoreThe 2024 growing season is wrapping up for the nation’s soybean growers. As focus turns to harvest, soybean conditions have fluctuated across the top 18 growing states.
Louisiana was the only state to report no soybeans in very poor shape. Nearly three-quarters of the state’s soybean crop was rated in good/excellent condition.
Read MoreU.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed President Biden and Vice President Harris for failing to take action to prevent a strike of unionized dockworkers at the East and Gulf Coast ports. Since June, negotiations have stalled between the ports and union officials on a new collective bargaining agreement. The International Longshoremen’s Association indicated that their members may begin a strike following the end of their current contract on September 30 unless a new agreement is reached.
Read MoreThe USDA has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
These sanctions include suspending the businesses’ PACA licenses and barring the principal operators of the businesses from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA, according to a news release.
Read MoreSome say just two, but USDA has now given the market three consecutive bullish supply demand reports. Both world and U.S. stocks have come down to very manageable levels. New York is some six cents off its lows and has now ventured into the expected 72-75 cent trading range.
Yet, this market has bears lurking around every corner.
Read MoreJeff Durand has grown rice in St. Martinville Parish for decades, beginning in the 1980s when his family decided to clear the woodland surrounding his crawfish farm.
“We grew up eating rice,” he recalled.
Now, he takes pride in exporting the staple crop around the world.
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