Louisiana produced $5.3 billion in agricultural products in the most recent year, accounting for 0.9% of all U.S. farm sales, with grains, oilseeds, dry beans and peas being the top products.

Louisiana agriculture is facing a difficult chapter and evolving challenges, but there is reason for hope, thanks in part to ...

Louisiana soybean farmers say a perfect storm of trade tariffs and wet weather have left them on the brink of a disaster they believe will expand throughout the U.S. within a matter of weeks. "This is ...

Photo caption: Agricultural Commissioner Mike Strain signed up to run for his elected position for a fifth term Tuesday. Photo courtesy the Strain campaign. Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike ...

While Louisiana suffered a crippling drought and heat wave in summer 2023 that had a $1.6 billion impact on the agriculture industry, crop progress is much better this year. But Louisiana Agriculture ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana's Republican agriculture commissioner defended his performance Monday against two farmers challenging him in the fall election who said the state needs to offer more help ...

This past summer's brutal heat, along with the drought that accompanied it, cost Louisiana agriculture about $1.69 billion, LSU researchers say. Experts at the LSU AgCenter examined the impact of the ...

When Regnal Wallace approached the Louisiana Farm Bureau board in 1981 and asked directors to invest $150,000 for equipment to produce a weekly agriculture-based TV show, he put on his best sales job.

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s agriculture hall of fame will have its first female member. Margie Jenkins, an expert on cultivating landscaping plants, is among the 2018 inductees into the Louisiana ...

The race for Louisiana agriculture commissioner is typically a lower-profile affair than elections for governor and some other statewide offices. But this year, the office has become an unlikely arena ...

BATON ROUGE -- Hurricane Gustav damaged more than $372 million worth of Louisiana crops, more than 10 percent of the total annual value and enough to make Gov. Bobby Jindal seek a federal agricultural ...