BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A Louisiana congressman is asking the federal government for help with the state’s crawfish industry. Last week, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-La.) wrote letters to ...

This is the time of year many look forward to -- the rodeo is in town, spring is in the air, and piping hot crawfish are being poured onto tables at restaurants and backyard boils. While the season ...

A crawfish farm and shipping facility in north Louisiana tested a viral innovation that is designed to make a seasonal, seconds-long task even faster for residents of the Bayou State. In an Instagram ...

Adler Stelly on his boat in Abbeville, Louisiana on March 15, 2024. Stelly has been farming crawfish his entire life and said he's been hit hard by the drought. It's a cloudy day in mid-March, and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Crawfish season in Louisiana this year was heavily affected by the summer drought in 2023, an arctic blast and rising costs for farmers. Anyone who wanted to buy live or ...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would aid Louisiana crawfish farmers after a weather-related disaster. The bill, known as the Crawfish ...

ROANOKE, La. (WAFB) - Burt Tietje is a third generation Louisiana rice farmer who now spends half of his time harvesting crawfish. “We were a bunch of German grain farmers out here, but in 1970, we ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration for the Louisiana crawfish industry Wednesday as the nation's top producer suffers though a shortage of the crustaceans. Last year's ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, the nation’s top producer of the crustaceans that are a staple in Gulf Coast seafood boils, Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration for ...

Anyone hoping to celebrate Mardi Gras with a piping hot crawfish boil this year may be out of luck -- or have to pay more than double what they’re used to. Crawfish farmers in south Louisiana -- an ...

There are many species of crawfish located throughout the United States and it is often thought of as primarily bait, but in certain areas of the country it is used in many other ways. On this ...