Louisiana Farm & Ranch

SPECIAL FEMALE REPLACEMENT AND BULL SALE‼️

Mark your calendar for the Cattleman’s Columbus Livestock Auction sale on Sunday, April 19 at 12 P.M.

700+ Female Replacements with a select group of Bulls

For updates and more information, visit Cattleman's Columbus Livestock Auction

SPECIAL FEMALE REPLACEMENT AND BULL SALE‼️

Mark your calendar for the Cattleman’s Columbus Livestock Auction sale on Saturday, October 4 at 12 P.M.

🐂 700+ Female Replacements with a select group of Bulls 🐂

For updates and more information, visit Cattleman's Columbus Livestock Auction.

GALLIANO— Aaron Guidroz, his wife Kristina, and their son Lane all pitch in to run one of our state’s largest mail-order breeding quail and quail hatching egg businesses – one that was built from ground up twice.

Galliano is a small community along southeast Louisiana’s Bayou Lafourche, and for 15 years Aaron had only sold quail from there to friends and relatives. Then, in the middle of the covid lockdown, he decided to make his hobby a bigger part of his full-time profession.

First, he had to buy some land.

Read more here: https://www.lafarmandranch.com/bites-of-louisiana

MERMENTAU– Christian Joseph Guinn is a rare breed in Louisiana.

Unlike most of his fellow farmers, he doesn’t come from generations of growing rice in the fields of the Cajun Prairie. Instead, he decided early on that this was what he wanted to do.

“I just always wanted to be around it,” Guinn said.

Out of ten siblings raised in Mermentau, Louisiana, he’s the only one who went into farming full-time.

“I love planting something and really just watching it grow,” Guinn said, riding his truck along the edges of his crawfish and rice fields, where fledgling rice plants have begun to stretch their tender stems and blades of leaves toward the spring sun.

Read more here: https://www.lafarmandranch.com/feature-stories1/louisiana-farmers-and-their-rice-stand-strong-in-the-face-of-uncertainty

Cattleman’s Columbus Livestock Auction is having a Special Female and Bull Replacement Sale on Saturday, May 3rd at Noon. Follow their page Cattleman's Columbus Livestock Auction for more sale information 🐂

CROWLEY— On a frigid morning in late February, Mexican guest workers Juan Manuel Rico Olalde and Jose David Lopez Velazquez traverse William Hetzel’s 40-acre crawfish pond on Hetzel Road in Crowley, knee-deep in ice-cold water.

Olalde has been coming to the U.S. for the annual harvest from his native Guanajuato, a historic mining town of colorful houses on steep mountainsides and a temperate climate, for more than ten years.

Working through two cold fronts of below freezing temperatures has been tough. “It’s hard, but we continue,” Olalde says. “As long as it’s not frozen, we work.”

Read more here:
https://www.lafarmandranch.com/feature-stories1/farmers-experts-predict-a-strong-crawfish-season-despite-extreme-temperatures

On a blisteringly hot Wednesday afternoon on the Stelly family farm near Kaplan, barrels worth of golden rice kernels pour into a container to be hauled off for processing. After days of rain, fifth generation rice farmers Sandrus and Adlar Stelly are glad to finally be ramping up their harvest.

“Everybody is in the fields harvesting right now,” said Ronnie Levy, Louisiana rice specialist at the LSU AgCenter. Levy has been making his rounds to four farms in Acadia, Allen, Jeff Davis and Vermilion parishes to help farmers improve their operations and test out the AgCenter’s research in real-life conditions.

This year, Louisiana farmers planted more rice than last year, but slightly less than expected due to very wet conditions during planting season. In total, 475,000 acres of rice were planted across the state this year, compared to 462,000 last year.

Read more here: https://www.lafarmandranch.com/feature-stories1/rainy-weather-spells-new-challenges-for-rice-farmers-after-last-years-historic-drought

CAMERON PARISH – Hubern Doxey’s family has lived off the land in Cameron Parish for generations. His grandfather was one of the state’s most prolific fur traders. Prior to the 2020 hurricanes that reduced much of the parish to rubble and pushed many of its residents to leave, his family also owned an oyster house in Cameron. Doxey himself is a fisherman who specializes in crabs, shrimp and oysters.

“My kids, when they’re old enough to take over, hopefully I’ll still be in business,” Doxey said of the next generation poised to continue the family tradition.

🦪 To continue reading, visit our website:
https://www.lafarmandranch.com/feature-stories1/long-known-for-its-wild-reefs-calcasieu-lake-now-produces-its-first-farmed-oysters

Beautiful weather for picking CM Farms’ Louisiana strawberries! 🍓

🍓🍓🍓 Did someone say STRAWBERRIES? Good news, y'all! Our u-pick fields are officially opening this Saturday.. just in time for the kick off of our Strawberry Fest!

Some things to know before this weekend!
-We will have tons of strawberry themed food and dessert available
-Farm attractions will be open for exploring
-Strawberry Fest will run April 6, 7, 13, 14
-We will have a special event- Wool Days April 13 & 14
-U-pick is on a first come, first serve basis
-A 1 gallon strawberry souvenir bucket purchase is required to enter u-pick fields
-Pre-picked strawberries will be available to purchase in the Country Store

Learn more: cmfarmsllc.com

Easter Sunday on the Heinen farm in Hathaway, LA!