Agricultural processors such as rice and sugar mills, grain elevators, cotton gins and sweet potato processors. Aquaculture processors such as crawfish, shrimp, oyster and finfish cleaning/packaging operations. Also wood waste disposal operations, and stable manure disposal.

To prevent the introduction into and dissemination within this state of contagious and infectious diseases of honeybees by providing for the registration, inspection, and control of honeybees and apiaries.

Boll weevil eradication is accomplished with two techniques - Pheromone traps for detection & chemical treatments for control. The program begins with autumn diapause applications. In subsequent years, traps are placed around cotton fields in the spring as cotton is planted. Traps are monitored & pesticide applications are made to all infested areas. For boll weevil eradication to be successful, all cotton fields must be monitored.

LDAF has a small seedling packet sale each year during the first full week of March that consists of six hardwood seedlings for $5 and 20 pines for $5. The sale is located at each of our Forestry District Offices, at our Central Office in Baton Rouge, and our Opelousas office.

LDAF has developed genetically improved seedlings through tree breeding, not through genetic engineering. LDAF is a member of the Western Gulf Tree Improvement Program, administered through Texas A & M University. This program helps members of the cooperative make selections to breed for desired improvements, such as faster growth and improved disease resistance.