Agriculture

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Mark Shirley, LSU AgCenter aquaculture specialist, finds a few crawfish in a pond near Abbeville days after the recent freeze. Shirley expects the warm weather to revive crawfish, making them more plentiful for the marketplace. Unfortunately for producers, the freeze hit at the peak of the season. (Photo by Bruce Schultz / LSU AgCenter)

AgCenter assessing freeze damage to area crops, livestock, crawfish

The LSU AgCenter is surveying agricultural producers to estimate damage totals resulting from last month’s freezing weather.

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Nearly 3 inches of snow and ice cover a sugarcane row on Fletcher Bubenzer’s farm near Bunkie. Louisiana had more than 60 hours of subfreezing temperatures, including record low temperatures in the low teens across much of the northern sugarcane growing regions. (Photo provided by Fletcher Bubenzer)

‘Wait and see’ approach taken to sugarcane freeze damage

More than 60 hours of subfreezing temperatures, including lows in the mid- to lower teens in the northern region of the Louisiana sugarcane belt, has many growers concerned about the effects it wil

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