State’s agriculture and forestry losses due to drought reach a staggering number

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A dump wagon drops cut sugar cane into a truck for Morris Farms Partnership in West Baton Rouge Parish in 2015. (File photo)

Louisiana agriculture and forestry suffered $1.69 billion in damage due to this summer’s drought and excessive heat, according to preliminary estimates by LSU AgCenter experts.


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