Baiting program scheduled
to begin mid-February As rice farmers prepare to make decisions about how much rice they will plant this year, they are subject to uncertainty in rice prices; great fluctuation in prices for fuel, fertilizer, and equipm...
Conservation program sign up deadline is January 13 Agricultural producers interested in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) should submit applications to their local USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service office by January 13, to be con...
Drought aid available for livestock producers Livestock producers in Evangeline Parish may be eligible for a payment due to drought conditions, according to Robert Helmer, County Executive Director for the Evangeline Parish FSA Office. The 20...
New bill would pre-empt EPA The House recently passed a Farm Bureau-supported bill that would pre-empt EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources like power plants, refineries and farms and r...
Stewardship Week celebration begins next week The Evangeline Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) wants to remind you that each of us has a responsibility to be a good steward of natural resources during the annual Stewardship Week cele...
Surprises from the USDA Another week, another surprise from the USDA. Farmers and ranchers examining the April World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) released today by the Agriculture Department were exp...
Conservation partnership agreement signed Alexandria – A conservation “agreement” to improve water quality in the Louisiana Coastal Prairie Region has been approved. The USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the Louisiana Commissioner of Ag...
Performance Evaluation of Beef Bulls - Dean Lee Bull Test It has been well established such traits as post weaning growth rate, feed efficiency and frame size at a given age are moderately to highly heritable. Selection based on individual performance for...
Conservation Reserve Program sign-up begins Producers in Evangeline Parish are reminded a general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program begins March 14, and continues through April 15. During the sign-up period, farmers may offer elig...
Aquaculture aid grant checks mailed Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., said crawfish, catfish and other state aquaculture producers, who incurred high feed input costs in 2009 and met qualifications for a $480...
Crawfish producers’ meeting set A crawfish producers meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 21, at 6 p.m. at the Evangeline Parish Extension Service Office (county agent’s office) at 230 Court Street in Ville Platte. If you can’t m...
True bipartisanship can only be achieved by legislative action For more than 100 years, members of Congress sat divided by party at the annual State of the Union address. But this year, as a symbol of civility, many Republicans and Democrats broke with tradit...
