How are cattle producers handling this heat with their livestock? LSU AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry says reduced hay production caused by lack of rain is expected to cost cattle raisers $62 to $108 million. Guidry says producers are reducing their herd size as a result…
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As a way to help generate interest in his campaign and the race for State Treasurer, Republican candidate Scott McKnight, is raffling off two tickets to next year’s Taylor Swift concert in New Orleans. McKnight says in order to win two floor seats, you have to donate three-dollar to his campaign…
cut 6 (08) “….in before”
Democrat Dustin Granger and Republican John Fleming are the other two candidates in the race.

The lone Independent in the Louisiana Legislature Joe Marino has submitted his resignation and will serve as an Ad Hoc Judge in Jefferson Parish. Brooke Thorington looks back on his legislative career.
cut 2 (32) “…I’m Brooke Thorington”

Nine schools from Rapides Parish and the Monroe area won a court battle with the LHSAA as a Baton Rouge judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the association’s playoff format that it put in place last year. The big issue is the definition of a select school as the LHSAA changed that definition last year, which moved dozens of schools considered public, to the select side of the playoff bracket, where they competed against private schools. What this means for the playoff format this year is unknown.