Alan Lawson

Louisiana Farmer|

2024 Abstract - DIVERSIFY TO MAKE A PROFIT: A third generation farmer in the Bayou Country, Lawson will speak about how poor soybean performance led him to rotate rice production and implement crawfish harvesting on his 2500-acre farm. This decision led to greater profitability for Lawson and enabled him to use his acreage for most of the year. Lawson will speak about the technique he developed to drain his land to harvest crawfish, and then go directly to the planting his spring crops. The graduate of LSU will be joined in his presentation by Dr. Ronnie Levy of the LSU Ag Center.