Some farmers across Acadiana have been a victim of crawfish theft. With the beginning of crawfish season being difficult at times, farmer Paul Zaunbrecher says losing product takes a big hit on businesses financially.
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USA Rice is committed to helping students start their school days the “rice” way with a new national school recipe contest designed to promote increased rice usage during breakfast. The contest is designed for school foodservice professionals, operators, and chefs representing grades K-12 and encourages them to submit original breakfast recipes featuring U.S.-grown rice. “Rice & Shine” aims to inspire increased rice consumption during K-12 breakfast meals with new recipes derived from the contest submissions.
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Calling all educators! (Educator = anyone who interacts with children: formal teacher, non-formal educator, librarian, 4-H agent, FFA sponsor, Scout leader, natural resource professional, etc.). The Louisiana Forestry Association invites you to apply for the 2025 Educators Tour for Forestry.
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American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on President Trump’s decision to delay tariffs on Mexico and Canada until April 2, 2025.
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Louisiana Tech University School of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service’s Wood Innovations Grant Program.
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U.S. cotton acres planted are expected to drop 14.5% this year according to the National Cotton Council’s survey. If realized, this would be the lowest acreage since 2015 and the sixth lowest going back all the way to 1975. Yet last week (Feb. 28), cotton prices (nearby old crop May 2025 futures) dropped to 65 cents – the lowest in roughly five years. New crop December 2025 stands at roughly 68 cents.
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At the 90th annual LSU AgCenter Livestock Show, AgCenter vice president and dean of the College of Agriculture Matt Lee surprised and — by the sound of the applause from those in attendance — delighted the crowd when he named Todd Tarifa official associate director of youth development.
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For the past two decades, dozens of researchers and scientists have come through the LSU AgCenter as a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s collaborative research programs, including its Scientific Exchange Program. The program brings in scholars from around the world to become acclimated to agriculture research in the United States.
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Farmers and meat producers across the U.S. can expect the new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and the retaliatory action from those countries to hurt their bottom lines by billions of dollars if they stay in place a while, and consumers could quickly see higher prices for produce and ground beef.
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Several days a week, students at Martial Billeaud Elementary School in Lafayette can be found outside in shifts, tending to a garden nestled in a small plot beside their school building, watering, weeding and debugging an array of vegetables.
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman John Boozman (R-AR) helped introduce legislation to protect the rice industry against dumping of cheap produce into U.S. markets from India and China.
The Prioritizing Offensive Agricultural Disputes and Enforcement Act would establish a joint task force on agricultural trade enforcement led by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).
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Rice farmers will be the first to receive a much-anticipated new herbicide mode of action - the first for the industry in almost 40 years. FMC developed Dodhylex Active, the key ingredient in the newly named Keenali Complete - aiming for release in 2026 pending EPA approval.
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U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy is calling on the Department of the Treasury to crack down on international financing that he says is actively harming the domestic shrimp industry.
In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Cassidy warned that U.S. taxpayer dollars are indirectly funding foreign shrimp aquaculture expansion, putting American shrimpers at a severe disadvantage.
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There isn't anybody who's been in the grocery store in the past few months that hasn't dealt with the exorbitant cost of eggs. Or maybe it's the 'eggsorbitant' cost of eggs. Sorry, trying to inject a little humor into a basically humorless situation.
But the crisis hasn't gone unnoticed by Louisiana state officials. Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain recently met with Brooke Rollins, Secretary of the US Department of Agriculture, about how to get a handle on egg prices, and what to do about the effects of Bird Influenza.
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Louisiana farmers work very hard during crawfish season to gather their crop to bring to market, so when a thief comes along to steal sacks of crawfish, it takes money straight out of the hands of that farmer.
Law enforcement officials say that since the start of crawfish season, there have been various reports of crawfish thefts at ponds all across south Louisiana.
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