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Farmer Michael Fruge, of Eunice, loads rice into a tractor-trailer to be hauled to a nearby grain elevator in August, 2019. (Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter)
Planting is underway or about to start for most crops, and farmers are watching the markets closely as the world economy reels from the fallout created by the novel coronavirus.
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Crawfish producer Gerard Frey, of Acadia Parish. (LSU AgCenter file photo by Bruce Schultz)
As the nation’s economy has ground to an abrupt halt, crawfish producers are dealing with fallout.
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A trailer is loaded with rice that had been stored in grain bins at Christian Richard’s farm in Vermilion Parish. (Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter)
Many schools and workplaces have closed up shop amid the coronavirus pandemic.
LSU AgCenter plant pathologist Don Groth received the Distinguished Service Award at the Rice Technical Working Group meeting in Orange Beach, Alabama, on Feb. 26, 2020. (Photo by Kenner Patton/Mississippi State University)
LSU AgCenter plant pathologist Don Groth was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the Rice Technical Working Group.
A total of 44 graduates of the Louisiana Master Cattleman Program graduated during the Acadiana beef cattle producers field day at the LSU AgCenter Iberia Research Station on March 7, 2020. Shown here are, back row, Michael Marino, Lawrence Thompson, Jody Stelly, Geno Delafose, Joshua Renard, Yvette Delafose, Robert Duhon, Jarrod Neal, Anthony Sagrera. Second row, AgCenter agent Andrew Granger, Colby Gothreaux, Shannon Neveaux, Richard Gothreaux, Carroll Boudreaux, Rane Sills, Keysa Delino, Emily Miller, Ted Miller, Coy Fitch, Ronald Roy, Monique Ledet, Dwayne Martin, Melanie Martin, Lisa Patout, Kristi Broussard, Lisa Neal, Lisa Robillard, Michael Neal, Brett Robillard, AgCenter agent Stan Dutile. Kneeling, Shanon Gaspard, Rene Prejean, Vernon Trahan, Thomas Menard, John Franques, Peter Menard, Allen Blanchard. Not shown are Brady Bourgeois, Allen Bourgeois, David Billings, Kirk Bernard, Sally Neal, Travis Thibeaux, Shann Comeaux, Lee Krouse and Amanda Vanya. (Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter)
The LSU AgCenter recognized 44 graduates from the Louisiana Master Cattleman program during a recent field day.
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