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Louisiana Farm Bureau's top young farm woman home schools five children while tending to crops, cattle on a Melville farm.
Private wind developers are quietly inking lease agreements with landowners in parts of rural Louisiana for what could be the state's first land-based wind farms, even as President Donald Trump ...
In Louisiana, the estimated market value of the land and buildings of the average farm is about $1.15 million. In 2017, that was about $890,000, according to the census.
In Louisiana, the estimated market value of the land and buildings of the average farm is about $1.15 million. In 2017, that was about $890,000, according to the census.
Black farmers and their families once owned and worked on thousands of acres of land in Louisiana’s Iberia Parish. The land has shrunk over the last several decades, and some, like Eddie Lewis ...
Behind a farm shop, silent farm equipment waits in the mud. At the height of his success in 2008, June Provost was farming 5,000 acres of sugar cane, mostly on leased land. He’s one of the last ...
For the Provost family, harvesting winter’s sugarcane crop isn’t just a living — it’s a way of life.
Aaron and Jamie Lee have faced hurricanes and drought during their young married life on the Vermilion Parish family farm. But the young couple, now raising their 15-month-old son Aaron Jr.
Cameron Poole, energy and innovation manager at Greater New Orleans, Inc., said that land-based wind farms could attract new investments in Louisiana from industries that are seeking renewable ...