The day began in prayer before a convoy of combines rolled into the rice fields here in West Carroll Parish.
These farmers left their own work behind at the peak of harvest, not just to pray for Josh Ward, but also to show compassion and get his crop out of the field.
Read MorePurdue Extension farm safety specialist Bill Field shares alarming facts about grain bin entrapment risks. Learn essential safety tips to protect yourself and others.
Read MoreThe sugarcane harvest season is underway across Louisiana, and in St. Martinville, the Louisiana Sugarcane Cooperative is already grinding cane around the clock. John Hebert, agricultural manager with the cooperative, said this year’s crop is shaping up in line with 2024, even as some differences are already showing in the fields.
Read MoreClose to half of all U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat exports move through the Mississippi River system, making it one of the most important export corridors in the world. Over the past five years, an average of 65 million metric tons of bulk agricultural product traveled by barge to terminals near New Orleans, where shipments were loaded onto ocean vessels bound for global customers. This inland waterway remains the most cost-effective way to connect Midwestern farms to foreign markets, ensuring U.S. agriculture can compete on price and reliability.
Read MoreHurricane Gabrielle is still a 'major' hurricane (Category 3), tracking from west-to-east across the subtropicval Atlantic. While Gabrielle is expected to weaken over the coming days, the NHC forecast has Gabrielle reaching the Azores late Thursday or Friday as a hurricane.
Read MoreIt looks like Louisiana has one decent chance of rain in the next week, and that will come today. It may linger into Thursday for south Louisiana, but if you need significant rain, I hope you get enough to last you by close of business Thursday.
Read MoreLouisiana’s early teal season opened on September 20, and it was a hot one. Despite a couple of early cool fronts, the weather over the last few weeks has been hot and dry, and the pattern continued into opening day.
Due to below-average blue-winged teal numbers last spring, the season was shortened from the usual 16 to only nine days this year. The additional days were chopped from the first half of the season, which closes on September 28.
Read MoreIt seems that restaurants in the Monroe and Ruston areas need a little work in telling diners about the source of their shrimp. SeaD Consulting went to 24 restaurants, and Founder David Williams said none of them said anything about the possibility of their shrimp being imported, as required by law.
Read MoreThe nation’s state secretaries, commissioners, and directors of agriculture gathered here last week for their annual conference and against the backdrop of a frightening ag economy, history was made.
Read MoreFor the first time since at least the 1990s, China hasn’t bought any U.S. soybeans at the start of the export season, a sign that Beijing is once again using agriculture as leverage in its trade fight with Washington.
Read MoreGrowers can optimize nearly everything in the production process, including cultural practices, herbicide and insecticide treatments, and fertilization regimes, said Brayden Blanchard, who grew up on a sugarcane farm before becoming a geneticist working on plant breeding at the LSU AgCenter Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel.
Read MoreThe years when the transition from summer to fall meant harvest time in the sugar industry are a thing of the past for much of Louisiana, but there are some notable exceptions.
Iberville is one such parish.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of South Florida want to reimagine the way we categorize hurricanes. Currently, they’re rated on a scale of one to five based solely on wind speed. But Jennifer Collins, a professor of geosciences at USF, says there are two other factors that need to be considered that may be even more important.
Read MoreU.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) have introduced the India Shrimp Tariff Act, aimed at protecting Louisiana’s shrimp and catfish industries from unfair competition.
Read MoreAn Oberlin man is facing charges after officials say he set several fires in Allen Parish.
On Sept. 15, Bradley Montou, 67, was arrested on ten counts of simple arson.
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