Join the LSU AgCenter for a Crop Insurance Workshop on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, from 8:30 AM to 1:45 PM at the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center, 112 Front Street, Vidalia, LA.
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If you have been anywhere near a cane field lately, you can feel it. The trucks are on the road before daylight, steam from the mills is back in the air and harvest season is officially underway. After a long summer of waiting, planning and watching the weather, growers and millers have finally started the grinding season. There is a rhythm to this time of year that is familiar to everyone in the agriculture industry.
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The 2024-25 National FFA Officer Team was elected today during the final session of the 97th National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis.
Students from Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, California, Georgia and Wisconsin were elected by National FFA Delegates to serve as 2024-25 National FFA Officers. They will lead the organization for the next year.
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It was already shaping up to be one of those days.
An unexpected bill is due, and the money just isn’t there. The kids are fighting again. Understandably, your wife is over it, and now it’s your fault. One of your employees just called to say the new group of wean pigs is sick. It’s all a part of a life, but sometimes it just stacks up to be too much.
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China’s state-owned COFCO bought three U.S. soybean cargoes, two trade sources said, the country’s first purchases from this year’s U.S. harvest, shortly before a summit of leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
As the two nations battle over trade tariffs, the lack of Chinese buying has cost U.S. farmers billions of dollars in lost sales, after they largely supported Trump in his campaigns for president.
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The Bossier City Farmers Market has been officially recognized as the 2025 #1 Farmers Market in the State of Louisiana by American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition during this year’s America’s Farmers Market Celebration — the largest nationwide ranking program honoring local farmers markets across the country.
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In a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, Congresswoman Julia Letlow thanked the Trump Administration for working to open up trade markets while highlighting the ongoing need for new market access for soybean producers.
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The town of Basile is getting ready to go hog wild this weekend for the annual Southwest Louisiana Swine Festival.
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The CEO of USA Rice says Japan has been buying more U.S. rice lately.
Over the summer, Japan said it would expand U.S. rice exports by 75 percent and purchase $8 billion worth of other ag goods to address a rice shortage and expand U.S. market access.
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The CEO of phosphate fertilizer producer Itafos says farmers are likely to continue to face elevated costs.
David Delaney says it’s an issue of global supply and demand.
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Rice is a point of pride in Japan, and the choice was a break from the typical diplomatic practice of showcasing local ingredients.
Read MoreIn the late summer heat, the hours move like molasses.
Still, across the cane fields of South Louisiana, migrant workers from Mexico brave the sun and punishing humidity to plant sugarcane. They come from the mountains of Guanajuato and San Luís Potosí, or the tropical coast of Veracruz, working the fields, often up to 70 hours a week.
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“Y’all sure go through a lot of trouble to get your rice. We just buy it at the store.”
So were the words of a young cousin of Louisiana Rice Promotion Board chair Kane Fontenot when first introduced to the rice harvesting process. Fontenot recounted the story to high schoolers from 15 parishes across the state at the pilot Growing Careers
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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump announced trade pacts with Malaysia and Cambodia during a trip to southeast Asia. He also provided new details on potential Thailand and Vietnam deals.
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A low pressure system will send warm and cold fronts across the Lower Mississippi Valley on Tuesday. While thunderstorms are in the forecast, latest projections from the NWS’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and Weather Prediction Center (WPC) indicate no significant concerns with regard to severe storms or excessively-heavy rainfall.
Most of the state can expect less than 1/4" of rain, with isolated larger totals where slower-moving t-storms have an impact.
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