Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., has initiated the process for eligible farmers affected by high water and flooding to possibly receive assistance from USDA’s Farm Service Agency.

Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., spoke to Morganza Spillway area farmers about their concerns over the Mississippi River level.

On March 13, 2008, Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., was appointed as receiver of Central Louisiana Grain Cooperative, Inc., by order of the 9th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Rapides.

Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., visited farmers in the Morganza Spillway area Wednesday evening to offer support for their efforts to fortify the levee with supersized sandbags.

A six-month-long investigation by Department of Agriculture and Forestry enforcement officers culminated with the sentencing of a Homer man Monday, Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., said.

The Department of Agriculture and Forestry placed Central Louisiana Grain Cooperative, Inc. of Boyce into receivership Thursday afternoon, Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., said today.

After interviewing nearly a dozen candidates, the Louisiana Forestry Commission has selected a new state forester, Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., announced.

Following a three-month-long investigation by enforcement officers with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, a Norphlet, Ark., man was arrested yesterday afternoon on felony timber theft charges.

Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain, D.V.M., welcomed several hundred people to Louisiana Ag Day at a ceremony held today in Baton Rouge.

Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., and other top Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry officials recently returned from a mid-year meeting of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) in Washington D.C.

A Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry firefighting strike team has been sent to Granbury, Texas, to assist the Texas Forest Service with wildfires, Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain, D.V.M., said today.

Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain is reminding seed dealers and farmers that all rice seed in Louisiana must be tested for Liberty Link 601 traits.