Rising costs, cheap imports and an unprecedented labor squeeze are converging with extreme weather to push Louisiana’s ...

The challenges facing the crawfish industry are not the result of a single shock, but the convergence of multiple pressures ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark your calendars for May 30, the date of the 13th Annual Garland Farm Crawfish Boil. The event will begin at noon, 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 ...

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 ...

WINNIE, TX (KTRK) -- It's the peak of crawfish season, and it's become a big business in Texas. Chances are you've had a pound or two, or 10. But have you ever wondered what it takes to get them from ...

During Lent, when visiting the Louisiana town of Lafayette (which might as well be the most Catholic city in America, by the way), you'll probably get two suggestions from locals on what to do for ...

EVANGELINE PARISH, La. (KPLC) - Two crawfish farm workers could have to pay $15,000 after authorities said they shot and killed an endangered whooping crane. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and ...

HAMSHIRE, TX -- Crawfish, mudbugs, crawdaddys; no matter what you call them, they're downright delicious. Whether you're ordering them by the pound at a local restaurant, or pulling them from the ...

WINNIE, TX (KTRK) -- It's the peak of crawfish season, and it's become a big business in Texas. Chances are you've had a pound or two, or 10. But have you ever wondered what it takes to get them from ...