Crawfish farmers will get USDA assistance for 2023 drought

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted his request and included crawfish in the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish Program (ELAP).

In January, Congressman Higgins sent a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack requesting that drought be included as an eligible cause of loss for ELAP. Congressman Higgins stated it was a necessary action for Louisiana’s crawfish...