Board Member's Story: Dave Foster Long-time LGLCI Board member Dave Foster sits on our board as a representative from Cattle Producers of Louisiana. His involvement as the CEO of the organization keeps LGLCI in-the-know with their events and opens doors to collaborate. Get to know the organization and learn about their summer bus tour in Dave’s story below: Cattle Producers of Louisiana (CPL) is a state organization, structured on a regional basis, formed to facilitate the co

Producer’s Story: Justin Fuselier “I weighed my options and figured the treatments weren’t that practical so we choose to let it run its course.” - Justin Fuselier An unusually wet spring leads to many problems for cattlemen across the state, particularly one father-son duo in Acadia Parish. Justin Fuselier and his father Vernon Fuselier run a grass only cattle operation south west of Eunice, La. In effort to sync their calving season with the natural nutritional cycles of th

Producer’s Story: Ted Miller "We typically see a 10% increase in milk production and around a 10% decrease in daily grain intake when we are utilizing winter annuals in the ration thus increasing our milk income over feed cost margin rather nicely." – Ted Miller My wife Melissa and I, along with our four children, own and operate Delta Dairy LLC which is a 600-cow seasonal grass-based dairy, located near Baskin, in northeast Louisiana. Having the entire herd calving in the fa

Producer’s Story: Anna Duhon Stokes "A rancher may have plenty of grass but without water to go with that forage it may be of no use." – Anna Stokes Duhon Cattle, L.L.C. is a Cow/Calf operation raising cattle just north of the Intracoastal Canal in Southwest Calcasieu Parish for 30 plus years. J.L. Duhon, his daughter Anna Duhon Stokes and her husband Kaleb Stokes run about 150 head of cows. Their pastures consist of a variety of forages including common Bermuda grass, native