Case Farms has acquired the Farmerville, La., chicken complex from Foster Farms, including fresh chicken and prepared foods processing, protein conversion, a feed mill and hatchery, according to a joint release sent to Food Processing this weekend.
Read MoreFarmers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, pay four to six times more for crop insurance than their counterparts in the upper Midwest, and Hunter Biram wanted to know why.
Read MoreMeet Austin Fontenot—a small-town Louisiana kid who went from racing dirt bikes down gravel roads to flying turbine-powered crop dusters across America. In this episode of Flight Tales, Austin shares the unfiltered truth about becoming an ag pilot.
Read MoreBryce Trahan is no stranger to agriculture. He grew up on a rice, crawfish and cattle farm in Forked Island and participated in 4-H and FFA. But the recent Kaplan High School graduate still found plenty to learn at an internship this summer at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station.
Read MoreLouisiana corn producers are busy harvesting their crop, and it is a very large one. LSU AgCenter correspondent Craig Gautreaux has the story from northeast Louisiana.
Read MoreThe fire at the Smitty’s Supply Inc. site remains 90% contained. Overnight, additional resources, including specialized heavy equipment, arrived. Response crews began removing structural debris and addressing covered hotspots. A containment berm is being established around the site, and recovery operations will continue throughout the day.
Environmental response efforts are ongoing in the Tangipahoa River and surrounding waterways. Local, state, and federal agencies, along with contracted responders, have deployed approximately 1,900 feet of containment boom in the river and 100 feet in a nearby drainage ditch.
Read MoreU.S. Rep. Julia Letlow (R-Louisiana) paid a visit to Vidalia, Louisiana, this week to share updates from Washington, D.C., particularly on the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the local impact it will have.
From the Vidalia Convention Center, at an event sponsored by Concordia Bank & Trust, Letlow shared how happy she was to be “home.”
Read MoreFoster Farms and Case Farms have finalized an agreement to transfer ownership of Foster Farms’ Farmerville, Louisiana, complex.
The transaction includes the Fresh Chicken, Prepared Foods and Protein Conversion facilities located in Farmerville, Louisiana, as well as the feed mill in Arcadia, Louisiana, and the hatchery in Athens, Louisiana.
Read MoreEach year, the LSU AgCenter tests commercially available wheat varieties at field sites across Louisiana. We collect data on resistance to common diseases, maturity, grain quality, and yield. These are some of the varieties we think are well-suited for consistent production in different part of the state, based on a balance between multi-year yield pefromance and test weight, maturity, and resistance to the diseases common in this state. These may not be the only varieties that will work on your farm, but we encourage you to consider them as part of a set of planted varieties.
Read MoreAmerican Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement regarding small refinery exemptions, which impact renewable fuel production.
“Renewable fuels have been a tremendous success story for the country and the rural economy. The Renewable Fuel Standard has reduced our country’s dependence on foreign oil, reduced air pollution, increased farm income, and provided good-paying jobs in rural America.”
Read MoreThis Presidential disaster declaration allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation, or to refinance certain debts. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available, and repayment ability.
Contiguous Louisiana Parishes: Bossier, Caddo, and Webster
Read MoreYou've probably seen the headlines and read the story. If you haven't, you can follow this link to learn more about the recent recall of frozen shrimp that had to be made by the giant retailer Walmart. Federal investigators say the shrimp imported from Indonesia showed signs of possible radioactive contamination.
Here in Louisiana, this story affects us in a lot of different ways, but maybe, just maybe, this "nuclear shrimp" imported from southeast Asia can be the bombshell that finally blows the lid off one of the greatest injustices in American agriculture. We have to protect American farmers/fishermen from cheaper, inferior imported products.
Read MoreRemember a couple of weeks ago hearing about a couple of wildfires burning in Louisiana?
Well, they're both still burning, and have burned a few thousand acres to date.
Read MoreLouisiana sugarcane is a stubborn crop. Battling extremes in heat and cold, invasive pests, sandy soils and the inevitability of destructive hurricanes means sugarcane farmers like the Judice family in St. Mary Parish, need to be as resilient as the crop itself.
Read MoreThe American Sugar Cane League announced today that it has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor in its lawsuit challenging the 2023 guest worker wage rule.
The outcome vacates the rule nationwide, eliminating costly and unrealistic wage classifications that have severely burdened farm operators across the country.
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