Joe Burrow is listed on the depth chart as the starting quarterback on Sunday night against eighth ranked Miami. Coach Ed Orgeron held off on publicly announcing a starter when he met with the media earlier today, because he wanted to tell the team first. Coach O says Burrow and Myles Brennan were told of the decision this morning
Cut 12 (11) “second team quarterback”
O warned that any early stumbles will result in Burrow handing the reigns over to backup Myles Brennan.
Despite the digital revolution, the forestry industry continues to grow in Louisiana. A new report says forestry accounts for 13 billion dollars in economic output to the state, and one billion in inflation adjusted with state and local taxes. LSU Ag Center Professor Shaun Tanger says while paper is down, paper related products are up.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries have issued a quarantine on the transportation and transplanting of Roseau Cane out of Southern Louisiana. A small invasive insect known as the Roseau can scale was first discovered in the state in fall of 2016, and has destroyed wide swaths of the plant in coastal Louisiana. LDWF Biologist Director Todd Baker says hunters often use the plant to build hunting blinds.
Cut 6 (05) “…cannot move cane.”
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season has delivered on its projections for below-average or near normal storm activity. The season has only produced five named storms with two becoming hurricanes. The hurricanes fizzled out in the Atlantic. With nearly a month and a half without a hurricane, State Climatologist Berry Keim says we are currently in the often most-active portion of the season. History will show late August hasn’t always been kind to the Bayou State.