In honor of National Farm to School Month this October, Seeds to Success: The Louisiana Farm to School Program and the LSU AgCenter are inviting K through 12 students across Louisiana to showcase their creativity in the 2025 Louisiana Farm to School Art Contest. Students are encouraged to explore Louisiana agriculture and create artwork featuring foods grown in the state, including fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy and seafood.
Read MorePolitical news on Monday included a visit to the KTBS-TV studios from Louisiana 5th District Congresswoman Julia Letlow.
Letlow was here to appear on an episode of the KTBS political podcast “The App-Arklatex People and Politics.” She discussed a variety of topics, including agriculture, which comprises a big part of her district.
Read MoreNew Iberia's West End neighborhood is one of the city's most impoverished communities. Demarked by South Hopkins Street west of downtown, the West End is where Phanat Xanamane's family first landed when they came to New Iberia from Laos in 1981, as part of a wave of post-Vietnam War resettlement to New Orleans and rural areas of southwest Louisiana.
Read MoreApplications are now being accepted for the Louisiana Sea Grant Fisheries and Seafood Leadership Program.
The program launched in 2023 to help enhance leadership in the Louisiana Commercial Fishing and Seafood Industry.
The Louisiana Sea Grant Fisheries & Seafood Leadership Program (FSLP) is a one-year program divided into four, two-day workshops for networking and skill-building. It includes seminars with experts, on-site tours, personal skills improvement, and meetings with business and government leaders in Louisiana.
Read MoreU.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently identified an instance of a traveler-associated human case of New World screwworm (NWS) in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reaffirmed its robust surveillance and trapping strategy, confirming there have been no detections of NWS in U.S. livestock.
Read MoreLieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser is renewing his call for President Trump and Louisiana’s Congressional delegation to impose a 10-cent-per-pound seafood inspection fee.
“That would allow them to hire thousands of inspectors to inspect more imported seafood. We inspect less than 5% of the imported seafood,” Nungesser explained.
Read MoreNot all farmers are Protestants or Catholics or Buddhists or Mormons – but all farmers excel at believing.
It’s hard written into the DNA of all those dependent on the land for living – that a tiny seed will miraculously produce its intended fruit, despite the human eye’s inability to see nature’s forces at work.
Read MoreIt isn’t every day that a former Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People of the Year and the subject of an Emmy-winning HBO movie speaks at an LSU AgCenter event. But that is exactly what happened when internationally renowned author, livestock welfare and autism awareness advocate Temple Grandin addressed the Louisiana Association of Extension 4-H Youth Development Professionals last week in Vernon Parish.
Read MoreA Tangipahoa Parish couple says their farm is struggling to recover after oily fallout from last week’s explosion at Smitty’s Supply in Roseland.
Lisa and Robert Friedley live about three miles from the oil company on a 71-acre farm. They raise cattle, sell hay and stock ponds with fish. They say all of it is now at risk.
Read MoreWhen Hurricane Katrina hit the coast on Aug. 29 and Hurricane Rita followed on Sept. 24, much of south Louisiana sustained tremendous damage. The storms caused more than 1,100 deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health; displaced several communities; and led to $108 billion in damage, according to the National Weather Service.
Read MoreAccording to the latest information from USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, 99 percent of the Louisiana soybean crop was setting pods as of last Sunday, compared to 97 percent this same time last week. Leaves were dropping on 58 percent of the beans. The crop reported at one percent poor, seven percent fair, 82 percent good and 10 percent excellent.
Read MoreUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette biologists and undergraduate and graduate students are examining the effectiveness of invasive carp as crawfish bait, research that’s being funded by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Read MoreCase 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 More
