In the heart of South Louisiana, two brothers are proving that innovation can sprout from tradition even when it starts in a rice field. Mike and Mark Fruge, founders of Fruge Aquafarms and the JT ...

This photo shows black-bellied whistling ducks in Louisiana. Jeff Durand has grown rice in St. Martinville Parish for decades, beginning in the 1980s when his family decided to clear the woodland ...

CROWLEY, LA. (KLFY) — Rice season is in full swing in South Louisiana, where third-generation farmer Eric Unkel is navigating his 30th rice season. As Unkel’s second harvest of the season is ...

ROANOKE, La. (WVUE) - Burt Tietje is a third-generation Louisiana rice farmer, who now spends half of his time harvesting crawfish. The German grain farmers who settled in Jefferson Davis Parish ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Hundreds of Louisiana rice farmers are bracing for potential economic fallout as President Donald Trump’s administration considers cutting funds to a U.S. food aid program that ...

Drive about an hour south of Lafayette, turn down a low-lying road that runs only yards away from the Vermilion River, and keep your eyes peeled for alligators. This primeval Louisiana landscape is ...