The 2025 Beauregard Watermelon Festival is set to kick off this week in DeRidder.
The yearly festival features plenty of fun for the whole family, with unique events like mutton bustin’, seed spittin’, pig scrambles, and even a mullet contest. If you feel like having a ball, there will also be dance lessons where you can learn to do the Watermelon Crawl.
Read MoreIf Title I reference prices in the farm bill are increased significantly, it would be logical to also consider raising the current payment caps for farm program payments.
Read MoreThe darkest corner of buck fever hides addiction—and sometimes, fetish.
Staring at a headless deer splayed in a cornfield, game warden Craig Roberg had no inkling a killing spree was underway on Iowa farmland. The decapitated carcass, still oozing blood, was one link in a 52-kill chain, with each rack procured to satisfy a compulsion.
Read MoreApple snails are popping back up around the state as the weather starts to get warmer, and entomologists say they pose a bigger threat this year.
Read MorePolitico's Grace Yarrow and Marcia Brown reported Wednesday that Republican "lawmakers are currently weighing whether to put Biden-era conservation programs into their party-line megabill that might have otherwise been included in their separate reauthorization of federal farm programs, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations."
Yarrow and Brown reported that the possibility of moving conservation programs into the megabill is "sending more signals they doubt their ability to pass a new, bipartisan farm bill this year."
Farmer sentiment improved in April as producers expressed more optimism about current and future conditions on their farms.
Read MoreThe Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has closed South Farm on Sherburne Wildlife Management Area (WMA) due to flooding.
Read MoreInsurance Commissioner Tim Temple is urging Louisiana residents to prepare for heavy rainfall which is expected to develop Tuesday evening and continue through Wednesday. The rain could produce flash flooding across the region.
Read MoreI had planned to start out our May CPL Country Reporter with a market summary of record prices, however, every week in April both the calves and feeders broke "all-time records" as did the slaughter steer and heifer (fat cattle) market. So, by the time y'all get this report these prices will be "old news.'
Read MoreThis report contains the results from the Crop Progress and Condition weekly survey. The survey is completed by parish extension agents’ visual observations and contact with producers in their parish.
Read MoreIn USDA’s March 31 Prospective Plantings report, farmers said they intended to plant 9.87 million acres of cotton this year – down 12% from last year. Some industry observers expected as much as a 15% decline. I wonder now if, in fact, that’s where we’re headed. New crop prices (Dec.‘25 futures) haven’t helped.
Read MoreOn May 1, West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 38-year-old Johnny L. Payne II of Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish regarding theft of livestock
Read MoreA flood watch is in effect from Rodessa to Venice, and Lake Providence to Johnson’s Bayou. If you’re keeping score, that means the entire state is under a flood watch, and most of the state is under that watch until Thursday afternoon. Northern parts of Louisiana should get more of a reprieve on Wednesday, so roughly north of a Hornbeck to Ferriday line, that watch expires Wednesday morning.
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