By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In late September, it was estimated that Louisiana had sustained $700 million in hurricane damage to its agriculture and forestry industries....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Louisiana sugarcane harvest won’t be nearly as sweet after hurricanes lashed the state. ...
The LSU AgCenter is working closely with the Louisiana Cattlemen’s Association, state Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the Louisiana Farm Bureau to get affected cattle producers back on their feet along coastal Louisiana following hurricanes Ike and Gustav....
The effects of late-season hurricanes have left Louisiana agriculture in a bad spot. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The news from the Louisiana cotton fields keeps getting worse. ...
By Tobie Blanchard
Hurricane Gustav dumped 18 inches of rain on Ken Thornhill’s sweet potato fields in Franklin Parish, La. ...
The vice chairman of the National Cotton Council says the three hurricanes that passed through or near Louisiana’s primary cotton regions in August and September came “at the worst possible time” for his farm and those of his neighbors around Newellton, La. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Repeated, drenching rains from storms Fay, Gustav and Ike brought Mississippi’s cotton crop from an anticipated above-average yield to one that appears to be average or below. ...
Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu are hopeful Congress will authorize hurricane disaster relief funding for Louisiana by Sept. 26....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi’s soybean crop is getting some “R and R,” but rather than producers having an easy time, their crop is battling seed rot and soybean rust....
The deadline has been extended to Sept. 30 for farmers who need waivers from the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to qualify for federal disaster insurance to help cover their losses from hurricanes Gustav and Ike....
In a letter Saturday to House and Senate leadership, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called on lawmakers to act swiftly to aid hundreds of thousands Louisiana residents impacted by Hurricane Gustav early this month....
According to very preliminary reports from Louisiana State University Extension Service, revenue losses to Hurricane Gustav exceed $400 million for major crops and aquaculture....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For Louisiana cotton producers, Hurricane Gustav couldn’t have hit at a worse time. ...
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
You can blame some of Arkansas’ agricultural problems this year on two recent hurricanes. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA’s September crop report forecasts smaller U.S. corn and soybean crops and slightly larger cotton and rice production than last month. ...
By Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter
Louisiana’s farmers are facing lost income from reduced yields and product quality in the neighborhood of $370 million to $450 million as a result of the effects of Hurricane Gustav, according to economists with the LSU AgCenter....
USA Rice Federation Chairman Jamie Warshaw and USA Rice Producers’ Group Chairman Tommy Hoskyn this week urged Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer “to issue the rules and regulations for the new Supplemental Revenue (disaster) Assistance Payments Program (SURE) as quickly as possible so producers in impacted areas have the opportunity to sign up for assistance that this new disaster aid program may provide....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Rains from Hurricane Gustav significantly affected a diversity of crops in Northeast Louisiana — particularly with parts of Tensas and Franklin parishes getting 19 inches of rain....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Farmer Jeffrey Sylvester of Whiteville, La., gazed over a field that looked more suited for water-skiing than growing rice. ...
Cotton losses in east central Louisiana parishes will be 50 percent in fields that are harvestable and 95 to 100 percent in others following heavy rains from Hurricane Gustav, says Roger Carter of Agricultural Management Services....
Rain from Hurricane Gustav across the crawfish-producing areas of Louisiana may cause problems for crawfish producers, according to LSU AgCenter aquaculture specialists Greg Lutz and Mark Shirley....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
About 30 percent to 40 percent of the state’s rice crop in southeast Arkansas has been hit hard by remnants of Hurricane Gustav, according to the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By Linda Foster Benedict
LSU AgCenter
Rice is among the many Louisiana agricultural commodities hurt by Hurricane Gustav, although the majority of the crop had been harvested in the southwest Louisiana rice belt before the storm came through....
The LSU AgCenter has made available a 32-page Storm Recovery Guide to help Louisianans in the cleanup after Hurricane Gustav. ...
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