Agricultural lenders surveyed in the new 2025 ABA/Farmer Mac Agricultural Lender Survey expect only 52% of U.S. farm borrowers will be profitable this year, signaling a sharp decline from recent years. It’s also a sign producers across major crop regions are continuing to navigate through a period of tighter margins and severe financial stress.
Read MoreLouisiana is the first state in the country to be approved for almost $1.36 billion in federal funding to expand broadband internet access across the state. Veneeth Iyengar, the executive director of ConnectLA, says it will allow the state to provide everyone in the state with reliable, cost-effective high-speed internet.
Read MoreCooking a Thanksgiving dinner for your friends and family will cost less than last year, marking the third straight year of price declines. The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 40th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey provides a snapshot of the average cost of Thanksgiving staples that make up a classic holiday feast for 10, which is $55.18 or about $5.52 per person.
Read MoreLouisiana consumers will spend even less this Thanksgiving, according to a statewide sample of prices for the 2025 American Farm Bureau Federation Thanksgiving Dinner Price Survey. Louisiana was the second-lowest price-wise in the survey, only behind Arkansas, and residents should expect to spend almost $10 less than the national average for a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people.
Read MoreThis report contains the latest supply and use estimates for the corn, soybean, rice, and cotton markets.
Read MoreAccording to the USDA-APHIS dashboard, there have been 36 commercial flocks of poultry infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the past 30 days. Including backyard flocks, it totals more than 1.8 million birds.
Read MoreJim Bernhard, a Louisiana business executive and the owner of Pin Oak Stud near Versailles, Ky., died Nov. 16 after a brief illness, according to multiple reports. The Baton Rouge resident was 71.
Read MoreCrawfish season is one of those traditions that Shreveport folks track like a favorite sports team. Every year, people across Shreveport and Bossier want to know one thing: when will the mudbugs get good.
Read MorePresident Donald J. Trump and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins continue to put Farmers First, including the unprecedented move to reopen over 2,000 county FSA offices in the middle of the government shutdown so farmers could continue to access U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) services during harvest. Today, the USDA will continue to support farmers and will release billions in disaster assistance for those recovering from natural disasters across the country.
Read MoreFollowing six missed reports, the USDA has released the first Crop Progress report since the government shutdown ended. Here’s a look at corn, soybean, and wheat crop progress for the week ending Nov. 16.
Read MoreThe LSU AgCenter’s Precision Agriculture Summit will be held Dec. 10 at the State Evacuation Shelter, 8125 U.S. Highway 71, adjacent to the Dean Lee Research and Extension Center.
Doors will open at 7:30 a.m.
Read More“There are rice mills up and down the Delta looking to get rid of rice hulls. They are everywhere, and you could probably get all you want for nothing. This is free fertilizer and it’s good fertilizer,” said Adam Chappell, farmer in Cotton Plant, Ark.
Read MoreUSDA announced they’re opening the Stage 2 portion of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) a week from today, November, 24, 2025. This is the remaining piece of the total $16 Billion that Congress appropriated in December 2024 that we advocated so hard for. This program includes some key pieces that LFBF has led the way in fighting for including coverage of quality losses (for program crops, specialty crops, and forages), a milk loss program, and on-farm stored commodities.
Read MoreWhile harvest might be behind us, several stressors still weigh on farmers today, from finances to trade tensions. Emily Krekelberg with the University of Minnesota Extension talks about some of the significant signs of mental health distress and health resources rural Americans should keep in mind.
Read MoreRice farmers in southwest Louisiana are wrapping up the harvest of their second crop of rice. This year’s second crop is one of the best ever, and producers certainly needed it.
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