Mother's Day is coming up, and if you're planning a crawfish boil, we have some good news.
Even though our spring has been dryer than normal, the drought conditions have not hit the crawfish ponds.
"We were very, very fortunate that we got rain when we needed it," said Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Mike Strain. "We did not have a spring that was so dry to where we actually lost the water in the ponds."
Strain says it was nothing like that drought we went through a few years ago.
"In 2023, we had 100,000 acres that actually we lost the water in the ponds, and they went dry and we lost 100,000 acres of production," he said.
He says we're back up to 360,000 acres, and the rice harvest was good, which usually means a good crawfish crop, with prices as low as two dollars or less per pound for a sack of live mudbugs.
