Texas isn't the only Gulf Coast state facing a crisis in the shrimping industry. The Louisiana Shrimp Association (LSA), a nonprofit coalition of commercial fishermen in the nation's top shrimp-producing state, drafted a petition earlier this week urging the Trump administration to throw it a lifeline.
Read MoreFor many years, farmers have battled leaf spot diseases caused by fungi in the genus Cercospora. And for almost as many years, plant pathologists have studied the diseases, searching for fungicides, growing practices and other ways to limit their negative effects on crops.
Read MoreThe American Relief Act, 2025, provides more than $16 billion in disaster relief payments to producers who suffered revenue, quality or production losses to crops, trees, bushes, or vines due to qualifying disaster events in calendar years 2023 and 2024.
Read MoreSeptember is here, and that means it’s time to celebrate National Rice Month (NRM)! Since 1991, when then-President George H.W. Bush signed a proclamation designating September as NRM, USA Rice has spent each year putting the U.S. rice industry front and center for consumers, retailers, and foodservice partners.
Read MoreAs sugarcane planting nears completion across south Louisiana and growers prepare for the start of harvest season, farmers are facing an additional challenge in their fields in the pasture mealybug.
Read MoreSugarcane farmers across Acadiana are wrapping up this year’s planting season, but a dry spell, high fuel prices, and pest problems in the fields have some growers bracing for a smaller harvest than last year.
Read MoreAmerican Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement regarding small refinery exemptions, which impact biofuel demand by exempting refineries from blending renewable fuel as required under the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Read MoreBroadband construction in Louisiana is advancing and moving quickly, with construction for nearly 15,000 broadband serviceable locations projected to be complete by the end of the first quarter of 2027 across 23 parishes.
Read MoreIn accordance with the emergency provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:962, and under the authority of R.S. 3:4608 and 4680, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry declares an emergency to exist and adopts by emergency process the attached regulations for the suspension of rules governing the sale of gasoline with ethanol blending limits and reid vapor pressure (RVP).
Read MoreRice imports are on the rise and U.S. stakeholders are leery about the potential consequences to national markets. Leaders from Riceland Foods and Producers Rice Mill met with U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, recently to discuss growing concerns over rising rice imports, international trade policy, and federal actions needed to protect the competitiveness of U.S. rice farmers.
Read MoreAs markets and growing conditions continue to disappoint producers across the country, turning profit on the farm remains a challenge. A closer look at the numbers suggests planting decisions play a role in farmers' ability to break even.
Read MoreTropical Storm Edouard will make landfall near the Texas Louisiana border later this afternoon. This system is going to be fairly compact, so I don’t expect far reaching impacts across Louisiana, but there will likely be some coastal flooding, heavy rain, and gusty wind over southwest Louisiana.
Read MoreTropical Depression Five formed over the northern Gulf Monday afternoon and is expected to strengthen before reaching the southwest Louisiana or Upper Texas coast Tuesday.
The National Hurricane Center designated the system Tropical Depression Five in its 1 p.m. Monday advisory.
Read MoreToday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the Ranchers First Initiative, a sweeping package of actions to continue rebuilding the Great American Beef Herd and put America’s ranchers back at the center of our nation’s food supply. Building on USDA’s October 2025 Plan to Fortify the American Beef Industry, the Trump Administration is delivering again.
Read MoreFor farmers staring down another planting season of fertilizer prices, supply uncertainty and geopolitical risk, a groundbreaking ceremony along the Mississippi River in Louisiana may offer a glimpse of a very different future.
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