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The 51st Annual Vermilion Parish 4-H Junior Livestock Show was held January 10-11th at the Cecil McCrory Exhibit Building in Abbeville. In all, 132 4-H members exhibited 289 head of livestock (beef, sheep, goats, dairy, swine) and 33 poultry exhibitors showed 108 exhibition birds at this show.
The sale of market animals totaled $162,116.75.

BATON ROUGE, La. — As south Louisiana begins to thaw out after the historic arctic blast and double-digit inches of snowfall in many crawfish-producing parishes, many are wondering if there will be a repeat of 2024 that saw small harvests and high prices due to the previous year’s drought. LSU AgCenter researchers are cautiously optimistic that there is barely a snowball’s chance in Acadiana of that happening.

The infrastructure of the city of Abbeville remained largely unscathed during the freezing temperatures that engulfed the area earlier this week.
Abbeville Mayor Roslyn White said while city officials have plenty of experience planning for hurricanes, that doesn’t necessarily translate when temperatures linger in single digits.
“Freezing weather, especially for prolonged periods, presents a different set of challenges than other types of storms,” White said.