Breaux Bridge – The 77th annual St. Martin Parish 4-H and FFA Livestock Show will be held Friday and Saturday, Jan. 23 and 24, at the parish Livestock Show Barn on the Breaux Bridge High School campus, 1015 Breaux Bridge Sr. High Rd.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) St. Martin/Lafayette Farm Service Agency will be conducting a training regarding the new Farm Bill Thursday, Jan. 22, at the Louisiana Sugar Cane Co-op, Inc. (LaSuCa) mill 9-11 a.m.
Sign-up is ongoing now with deadlines soon!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is publishing a rule to improve the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), one of USDA’s largest conservation programs.
The deadline for public comments on the new rule is Feb. 10, 2015.
A new picture book covering every phase of the Louisiana sugarcane industry has been published, and the photographer/author will be at Books Along The Teche in New Iberia to sign copies on Saturday.
The signing – by sugarcane industry safety consultant Ronnie Olivier – begins at 10:30 a.m. and goes until 12:30 p.m.
Louisiana normally has its coldest temperatures in January but freezes can occur as early as November and last well into early March.