Isaac Damage to Louisiana Agriculture Estimated at $100M

An assessment won’t be finalized until all harvests are complete, but it appears that an estimated $100 million in losses to Louisiana’s row crop industry resulted from Hurricane Isaac, state agriculture officials say. That represents about 3 percent of the pre-storm value of the state’s agricultural products, according to the Louisiana State University AgCenter. While any amount of crop and livestock loss is unwelcome to agriculture producers, LSU AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry said agricultural damage from Isaac is low compared with last year’s drought and losses from storms in previous years.