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Well, now it’s time for rice harvest. When driving in Southwest Louisiana, it’s pretty easy to spot a field of rice. But some may not be aware of the impact those rice fields have. Rice Farmer ...
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 ...
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and ... whether it’s when the farmer puts the rice into the fields, all the way to the harvest and into the grain elevators,” she explains.
The crawfish ponds are side by side with fields of rice. And they alternate the crops each year by seeding a rice field in ...
HOUSTON — We're in the peak of crawfish season, so we went behind the scenes in Louisiana with the ... crawfish spend months growing in rice fields. “Then we harvest the rice sometime in ...
Second Harvest Food Bank is now even more equipped to battle food insecurity in Southwest Louisiana. The Southwest Louisiana ...
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - One of the largest food banks in Louisiana cut the ribbon on a new distribution center here in Southwest Louisiana. With a grand opening held early Friday morning in Lake ...
Second Harvest Food Banks have been on a mission to end hunger in South Louisiana for over 40 years by providing food access, advocacy, education and disaster response. Reportedly, they have ...
ROANOKE, La. (WVUE) - Burt Tietje is a third-generation Louisiana rice farmer, who now spends half of his time harvesting crawfish. The German grain farmers who settled in Jefferson Davis Parish ...