Celebrate Eggs May is Egg Month VOL. 101, No. 10 www.LDAF.la.gov May 10, 2018 State awards farm recovery grants to more than 900 farmers, ranchers Ricky and Carla Rivet of Morganza in Pointe Coupe Parish sign closing documents to secure their farm recovery grant in Baton Rouge recently. The Rivets are third generation farmers who farm NASA Astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei, Senator Francis sugarcane, soybeans and Thompson, Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., NASA cattle. Astronaut Joseph M. Acaba. NASA Michoud Assembly Awarded "Certified Louisiana" Logo The Louisiana Department of through the LDAF. Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) “The Michoud Assembly Facility Courtney and Mason has deemed the NASA Michoud is a major economic driver for the Leonard, along with their Assembly Facility eligible to New Orleans area. We appreciate daughter, Brylee, review be included in the “Certified the facility’s commitment to Louisiana” logo program. conducting business in Louisiana closing documents with To be “Certified Louisiana,” a for many decades,” said LDAF LDAF staff. The Leonard product must be made, grown, Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M. family farms rice in Bell manufactured, processed, produced Senator Francis Thompson and City, Calcasieu Parish. or substantially transformed in the Representative Greg Cromer read state of Louisiana. The “Certified Senate Concurrent Resolution 52 Louisiana” program is facilitated on the Senate floor this morning. More than 900 farmers and ranchers in 51 parishes Office of Community Development from the U.S. are set to receive disaster recovery grants to help Department of Housing and Urban Development for compensate for their losses from the disastrous recovery from The Great Floods of 2016. flooding that occurred across Louisiana in March and To be eligible for the program, producers must have August of 2016. demonstrated a pre-storm, annual gross farm revenue The average grant award is $9,905.65. of $25,000 in 2014, 2015 or 2016. In addition, crop The applicant breakdown is as follows: losses must have amounted to a minimum of $10,000, Total applicants: 1,065 as calculated by the crop-loss calculator. Total eligible applicants: 961 The eligible crops included cotton, corn, crawfish, grain sorghum, rice, hay, soybeans, sweet potatoes, Maximum grant awarded: $12,185.40 sugarcane, strawberries, wheat and cattle. The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Eligible parishes included: Acadia, Allen, Forestry (LDAF) mailed award letters to each Ascension, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, recipient on April 26. The letters listed the closing Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Catahoula, dates, times and locations for finalizing the grants. Claiborne, DeSoto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, “This is not a loan,” LDAF Commissioner Mike East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Iberia, Strain, D.V.M., said. “The goal of this grant program Iberville, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, is to help our farmers and ranchers sustain their LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, businesses following a year of devastating flooding.” Natchitoches, Ouachita, Point Coupee, Rapides, Red The Restore Louisiana Task Force allocated $10 River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. James, St. million for farm recovery to LDAF as part of $1.7 Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Union, billion in Community Development Block Grant- Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, Webster, West Baton Disaster Recovery money received by the Louisiana Rouge, West Carroll, West Feliciana and Winn. Page 2 Market Bulletin May 10, 2018 Louisiana Agriculture & Forestry Today Lafayette Parish woman arrested for livestock theft Baton Rouge, La. (April However, the horse’s real owner internet. Broussard, of Scott, La., was 26, 2018) – The Louisiana was unaware and never gave “Buyers of livestock over the booked into the Lafayette Parish Department of Agriculture and Broussard permission to sell internet should be cautious, Jail on April 25, 2018 for Theft Forestry (LDAF) Livestock the horse. At the time, the horse particularly when dealing LA.R.S. 14:67 B 4 Property Brand Commission arrested was being housed in Lafayette with cash transactions. valued over $500.00 but less than 27-year-old Sarah M. Broussard Parish where the horse’s owner We also recommend being $1,000.00. for stealing a horse valued at did not reside. Therefore, when familiar with whom you are If convicted, the suspect faces approximately $1,000. the horse was transferred to the conducting business and demand a fine and/or jail time. Investigators say Broussard, person who bought it, the owner paperwork regarding the origin The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s who used a false name to was unaware that the horse was of the animal,” said LDAF Office and the Scott Police identify herself, advertised a missing until the owner came Commissioner Mike Strain, Department assisted in this MIKE STRAIN horse for sale over the internet. across the advertisement on the D.V.M. investigation. COMMISSIONER Louisiana Market Bulletin (USPS 672-600) USDA Agriculture Marketing Service Hay Prices Mike Strain DVM, Commissioner As a public service to state residents, the Louisiana Values are in tons unless otherwise noted Market Bulletin offers free listings subject to existing regulations. Out-of-state residents may list Alabama SE Hay Report, April 26, 2018 Want Ads only. Ads may not exceed 25 words. 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