According to the LSU AgCenter, Katrina brought a big blow to several Louisiana agricultural commodities. Sugarcane has been knocked down, milk producion has been interrupted and a fourth of the state’s nursery industry is in southeast Louisiana. Citrus, especially in Plaquemines Parish, has been devastated. The good news is that the rice harvest is almost completed in southwest Louisiana, but there is some damage to the north Louisiana rice fields. The cotton crop is considered good. The forestry industry, particularly in St. Tammany and Washington parishes, was greatly impacted. There has been some lost of cattle in the parishes south along the Mississippi River.

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