An industrial hemp plant exhibits wilting caused by southern blight. (Photo by Raj Singh/LSU AgCenter)
Louisiana’s first industrial hemp crop is getting hammered by a fungal disease called southern blight.
An apple snail in the entrance of a crawfish trap. (Mark Shirley, LSU AgCenter.)
First it came for your wetlands. Now it’s coming for your crawfish and your rice.
Bobby Hanks, CEO of Supreme Rice
Bobby Hanks, CEO of Crowley’s Supreme Rice, has been named as the new chair of USA Rice.
The LSU AgCenter, in collaboration with the Acadiana Food Alliance, Market Umbrella and Sprout-Nola, will kick off a free training program for new and beginning Louisiana farmers in October in Bato
Cicero Manenti fuels up at the McLain farm in Abbeville.
Cícero Marcon Manenti has known he wanted to take on the family rice farm since he was 10 years old.
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