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You may notice a few changes in this week’s episode. After 40 years at our old location, TWILA has a new home and our co-host TWILA's Kristen Oaks-White is back from maternity leave! In this week’s episode, Karl Wiggers takes us to Vermillion Parish Farm Bureau’s Annual Party at the Red Barn to show us how a good time & good cause can go hand in hand. Neil and Avery Davidson are bringing us back to Panama and Costa Rica to teach us about their pineapple and rice production. We also head to New Orleans, where thousands of people from across the country attended the National Cattlemen's Beef Association Convention. All of that and more in this episode of TWILA!

LSU AgLeadership Class XVII culminated their three-year program with an international trip to Panama and Costa Rica to learn how agriculture worldwide affects what they do on their farms, ranches, and ag-related businesses. TWILA’s Avery Davidson and Neil Melancon accompanied the class on their trip and brought us some pretty unique stories. A coffee farm nestled between the slopes of volcanoes, a Costa Rican farmers market, the Panama Canal, and teakwood- you can find all that and more in this week’s episode.

We’re kicking off 2023 with a special edition of TWILA from San Juan, Puerto Rico! That’s where the American Farm Bureau Federation held its 104th Annual Convention earlier this month. We have all our coverage from the convention, plus some great stories from around the island! Avery takes us and a group of Louisiana rice farmers to Lajas to see their check-off dollars at work. Karl traveled way up to Adjuntas to get his coffee fix and learn more about this unique commodity. And Neil took one for the team and took on taste-testing Bacardi Rum. All that and more in this week’s episode of TWILA.

We are looking back on some of our favorite stories from 2022 in this episode of TWILA. Karl Wiggers brings us back to the difficult planting decisions farmers had to make this spring and telling us how that worked out. Breann Hendricks gives us an update on McNeese State University’s Rodeo Team. Neil Melancon reminds us of the unique connection between D-Day and Louisiana agriculture. Avery Davidson takes us back to Santa Barbara and all the fun times had on the Louisiana Farm Bureau trip in March. But there is also some new on this episode too– a new Feasting on Agriculture segment and some never seen behind-the-scenes bloopers.

We are traveling both near and far in this week’s episode of TWILA! Karl Wiggers takes us to Washington D.C., where a group of soybean farmers affected by the extreme rains in August visited Capitol Hill to talk with leaders. Breann Hendrickson brings us to Louisville, Kentucky to catch up with some Louisiana showmen who participated in the North American International Livestock Exposition. Neil Melancon held down the home front to give us an update on this year’s sugarcane harvest. All that and more in this edition of TWILA!

This week, the TWILA team zeros in on a topic we all should care very deeply about…food. It’s a known fact that whether or not we see them everyday, we all depend on farmers every time we go to the grocery store, the drive through window, or open up the refrigerator. That’s why we’re all thankful for the farmers and ranchers who grow the food and fiber we depend on daily. This week, the team looks at the grocery prices that are all over the news these days, we shop at a local farmers market, and learn about the Louisiana Farm Bureau Holiday Shop on this brand new episode of TWILA!

What do politics, doppler radars, crawfish, feral hogs, forage, farmer's markets, and Christmas trees have in common? Well, they are all topics on this episode of TWILA!

The falling Mississippi River’s impact on agriculture and trade, Green Leafy Field Day in Greensburg, Congressman Mike Johnson’s Northeast farm visit, and the Fast Food Farm’s Fall Ag Day. You can catch all that and more on this episode of This Week in Louisiana Agriculture!