Students and professors at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock received a national grant to study how farmers’ risk preferences affect water use during droughts.
The three-year study will determine if risk preferences change with drought conditions and climate change. Farmers in rural Arkansas, the Lower Mississippi River Basin, Louisiana and part of Missouri are included in the research.
Read MoreThe 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is approaching, with forecasters warning of another volatile year similar to 2024, one of the most destructive seasons on record. AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DeSilva predicts 13-18 named storms, 7-10 hurricanes, and 3-5 major hurricanes.
Read MoreThe Louisiana Farm Bureau’s Women’s Leadership Committee is taking on the task of “ag storytellers.” This Week In Louisiana Ag has the story.
Read MoreIt's hard to nail down Dino Pertuit. I finally catch the Louisiana seafood legend early in the morning, and we chat while he drives back from a shrimping expedition, the phone call dropping at least three times along the way. His rich Cajun accent and the rumblings of his truck in the background make it hard for me to decipher everything he’s saying. But one sentence stands out crystal clear: “I’m going to do it until I die,” he says of shrimping. And at 57 years old, he’s one of the younger ones who keep it going.
Read MoreSen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, joined Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in reintroducing the Coordinated Support for Rural Small Businesses Act, which the Senate Small Business Committee today voted to advance to full Senate consideration.
Read MoreTrade policy in Washington these days is filled with talk of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, but rice exporters should pay at least as much attention to a couple of more arcane terms: port service fees and restrictions on services.
Read MoreSince 2015, Brazil’s soybean acreage has increased 42%, and production is up 57%. How does the U.S. stack up against this key South American competitor?
Read MoreAccording to the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Louisiana, there were 6.2 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Sunday, March 23, 2025. Topsoil moisture supplies were 1 percent very short, 5 percent short, 70 percent adequate, and 24 percent surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies were 0 percent very short, 5 percent short, 79 percent adequate, and 16 percent surplus.
Read MoreSen. John Kennedy (R-La), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today reintroduced the Quality Loss Adjustment Improvement for Farmers Act. The bill would give farmers more flexibility by improving the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)’s ability to set discounts for farmers who experience crop loss.
Read MoreA picture of the St. Bernard Parish shrimp boat FJG, docked on Bayou La Loutre in Yscloskey, is featured in a poster hanging in the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Meraux.
Right below the sign is a cooler full of frozen shrimp, not from Louisiana waters but imported from Indonesia and Ecuador.
Read MoreA recent report revealed that 58% of restaurants sampled in Shreveport were found to advertise or imply they serve Gulf wild-caught shrimp falsely. Rapid ID Genetic Highly-Accurate Test (RIGHTTest) revealed that farm-raised imported shrimp are being passed along to unknowing consumers as authentic Gulf shrimp. Samples taken between March 8-10, 2025, showed that the Shreveport sample contained the highest inauthenticity rate in Louisiana.
Read MoreThe Louisiana Crawfish Festival is considering banning the sale of imported crawfish after a few incidents at the festival over the weekend.
Festival organizers confirmed that some vendors were caught selling Chinese crawfish without proper signage.
Read MoreLouisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents have cited an Abbeville man for allegedly killing a black bear in Vermilion Parish. Corporal Derek Logan says 50-year-old Shannon Parker shot the 10-year-old female weighing 200 pounds.
Read MoreTime moves on, but old crop cotton prices remain mired in the doldrums of a flat market and will continue to be stuck in those same doldrums for another 8-10 weeks.
Read MoreFrom bustling farmers markets to safer sidewalks, Franklin Parish communities are seeing positive changes and many of them can be traced back to a growing partnership with the LSU Ag Center. Through its Healthy Communities initiative, the AgCenter is helping rural towns identify needs, secure funding and implement programs that are already improving residents' quality of life.
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