By Craig Gautreaux, Ph.D., LSU AgCenter
NEW ORLEANS — For a family farm to survive one hundred years, it needs a little luck. It also really needs people willing to work extremely hard for mostly very small rewards.
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By Chuck Cannon, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
NEW ORLEANS — Young vocalists, dancers and musicians regaled attendees here at the 97th Convention of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation with their amazing performances, but in the end it was a 16-year old violinist and 12-year old dancer who claimed first place in the Talent Contests on June 21.
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By Tobie Blanchard, LSU College of Agriculture
NEW ORLEANS — On her farm in Sabine Parish, Megan Cook is checking cattle, mending fences and bailing hay—tasks she has done with her grandfather since she was a teenager.
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By Carey Martin and Lacey Dodson, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
NEW ORLEANS - Farming isn’t in his family, but it is in his soul. In 2008, Adam Caughern was fresh out of college with the dream of becoming a farmer. Eleven years later, Adam and his wife Megan have not only become first-generation farmers, they were named Louisiana’s best young farmers at the 97th Annual Convention of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation.
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By Bobby Soileau, Ph.D., LSU AgCenter
NEW ORLEANS – 4-H and raising livestock helped shape Hannah Devall’s youth and career. It also helped her win the 2019 Louisiana Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Excellence in Agriculture award.
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By Sam Irwin, American Sugarcane League
NEW ORLEANS—A labor attorney told farmers attending the 97th Annual Convention of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation that following a March 2019 ruing by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals they are much more vulnerable to lawsuits than they were just a few months ago.
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By Linda Benedict, LSU AgCenter
NEW ORLEANS—Kody Beavers, a farmer from Franklin Parish, was named the winner of the Young Farmers and Ranchers Discussion Meet contest at the 2019 Louisiana Farm Bureau Convention in New Orleans.
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By Avery Davidson, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
NEW ORLEANS—It’s a “three-peat!”
No, it’s not the Saints or the Pelicans, but here in the Crescent City, this is the third year in a row the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation recognized the Rapides Parish Farm Bureau with the President’s Award. Rapides Parish Farm Bureau President Bill Cheek accepted the award on stage Thursday night at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation.
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By Avery Davidson, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
NEW ORLEANS—Edwards, along with Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain, DVM and Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon are scheduled to speak before Farm Bureau members Friday afternoon at the New Orleans Marriott.
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By Lacey Dodson, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
Phillip and Carey Tomlinson are dedicated to their farm and its success but something they take more seriously is their family. Their children take a front seat in their lives and they have raised them in the same way that these 4th generation farmers were raised.
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By Lacey Dodson, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
Robert and Rachel Duncan, along with their 9-month old daughter Wrigley, embody the spirit of a young farm family. They farm soybeans, grow and sell their own hay and have around 200 head of cattle.
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