The average price of crawfish, live and boiled, keeps going down this Mardi Gras season.
This weekend’s average prices are $4.10 per pound for live crawfish and $6.49 per pound for boiled crawfish.
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The LSU AgCenter is once again gearing up for AgMagic, its signature educational event that takes visitors on an interactive journey through Louisiana agriculture. AgMagic events will be held in Baton Rouge and the Greater New Orleans area in March.
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American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on the Trump administration decision to release $20 million in Inflation Reduction Act funding for conservation program contracts signed with farmers under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, the Conservation Stewardship Program and the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program.
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An indicator of farm financial health across the country, Chapter 12 bankruptcy provides farmers and ranchers with increased flexibility for paying off debt, and is used when all other options have been exhausted. AFBF Market Intel reports have long followed annual filings of Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies, through good and bad years for the farm economy.
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Weather-associated production risk is a part of life for farmers and ranchers. Through heavy rain, hail, snow, winds, fire and drought, farming families prepare land, plant and harvest knowing their livelihoods are reliant on local weather conditions. In 2024, 27 weather disasters, each with damages exceeding $1 billion, struck the U.S. coast-to-coast.
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that USDA will release the first tranche of funding that was paused due to the review of funding in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
In alignment with White House directives, Secretary Rollins will honor contracts that were already made directly to farmers. Specifically, USDA is releasing approximately $20 million in contracts for the Environmental Quality Incentive Program, the Conservation Stewardship Program, and the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program.
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State Representative Mike Johnson from Pineville says more than 12 million malnourished trees from the 2023 drought that have become infested with pine beetles need to be taken down. Johnson says Cleco and the Louisiana Department of Transportation have started the process by removing dead trees along roads and highways, but more needs to done with trees on private property.
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Between 10 and 20 percent of the workforce at the US Department of Agriculture’s research center in New Orleans—one of four regional headquarters for scientific research supporting farmers across the country —has been fired as part of the Trump Administration’s sweeping federal government layoffs, a source familiar with the situation told WWL Louisiana.
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If you’re on the hunt for seafood, but worried the cold snap we’re going through may put a dent in those plans, not to fear! Experts are saying our waters are still offering a plentiful bounty for locals.
Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says the crab harvest specifically is standing out.
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More than 300 rice researchers from around the world gathered here this week for the 40th biennial Rice Technical Working Group (RTWG) meeting to discuss everything from agronomy, breeding, and cytogenics to utilization, weed control, and yield.
Over four days, attendees had their work cut out for them navigating daily schedules, with the event offering more than 151 oral presentations in six discipline panels, multiple committee meetings, three symposia, education sessions, a general session, an industry lunch, an awards lunch, and poster sessions highlighting 102 fledgling research projects.
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Since Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, Brooke Rollins has been focused on how to build the teams and the plans that impact the trajectory of agriculture and rural America. On that day, while en route with her husband and four teenagers in their motorhome to Auburn, Ala., for the Texas A&M football game, she got a call from now President Donald Trump. The purpose of his call: She was his top choice to fill his final significant cabinet position, Secretary of Agriculture.
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It’s National Future Farmers of America Week and students around the country are celebrating.
FFA is a youth organization that educates members on agriculture and prepares them to take on leadership roles.
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As sugarcane enters its growing season, inconsistent temperatures pose potential risks for its development. Stuart Gauthier, a county agent with the LSU Ag Center, explains that this time of year is crucial for the crop's growth. "This is the time of year where we need the cane to start growing. Usually, when you get to the end of February, we start making our crop for the next year and getting some green shoots that are hopefully able to make those stalks," Gauthier said.
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Louisiana Crawfish Company has found themselves in the middle of a federal class action lawsuit over allegedly sending out unsolicited discount offer text messages too early in the morning.
The lawsuit, filed in the Central District of California by plaintiff Mason Ibarra ('Plaintiff'), accuses Louisiana Crawfish Company of violating the TCPA by sending at least 10 unsolicited marketing texts before 8 AM.
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As part of Black History Month, Louisiana Tech University’s College of Applied and Natural Science is highlighting the achievements of Jazmyn Ford, an alumna who received an Outstanding African American Achievement Award during the Shreveport-Bossier-DeSoto African American Awards Banquet. Ford, a 2020 graduate, has paved a path of excellence from her time at Tech to her current role as a veterinarian at Towne South Animal Hospital in Shreveport.
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