Spring weather is upon us and Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says this is the time for residents of the state ...

Favorable conditions throughout the early growing season got the crop off to a quick start, and he and other growers in Louisiana are ... are expected to wrap up harvest the end of August.

The ratoon rice crop could be a near-total loss in Texas and Louisiana after the wrath of Hurricane Harvey subsides. The vast majority of Gulf Coast rice was harvested before the arrival of Harvey ...

Department of Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said Louisiana’s 300 commercial ... with the most recent bird instance being a hunter harvest duck sample collected in Cameron ...

That garden soon bloomed into a full-time, 14-lot farm in Harvey, DaBackYardFarm. As the USDA cuts the funds that made the backyard business possible, they fear it won’t survive the financial drought ...

Louisiana produces 90% of the United States' crawfish. Most of the farmed crawfish comes from rice fields in one small area of Cajun country. There, the industry is fairly new. In the 1980s, rice ...

Craving seafood? Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says this is the time to get some crabs from your favorite local seafood spot … because they’re some of the BIGGEST he’s ever seen ...

The decision comes after a successful inaugural hunt in 2024, where 10 bears were harvested in Management Area 4. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries attributes the expansion to the ...