Weather

By Eddie Eskew
AgCenter County Agent

The weather in the last couple of weeks has been just beautiful. The cool, dry conditions have made it enjoyable to be outside and has been excellent for soybean harvest, second crop rice harvest, and out last hay harvest.
This weather has also been favorable for crawfish production, as cool weather means cool water, which means good oxygen. With fuel prices still high, it is to your advantage as a crawfish farmer to have cool weather as flood up begins so that you don’t have to exchange too much water.

LAKE ARTHUR SUN TIMES / Mike Rizzuto
GEESE AWAIT GUSTAV: These five Canada geese graze next to the shores of Lake Arthur recently. The whole Acadiana area is bracing for the possibility of Hurricane Gustav visiting the area this week.