If you harvest it, it will regenerate.

If it’s clean, I’ll let it go, … I’ll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do whatever I have to to protect the consumer.

there is a lot of water, a lot of damage.

St. Bernard is totally underwater, … It is over the rooftops. I didn’t see a lot of houses in St. Bernard.

We’re working to save lives today,

I don’t know what we’re going to do about it,

The state average is about 11 inches below normal rainfall. There are very few places in the state that have gotten enough rain this year, putting us in a perilous predicament,

In my opinion, someone is using the Internet to cause hysteria about a problem that doesn’t exist.

We don’t know if the cotton has been blown out, but most of the storm probably went to the east of the cotton-growing area from Pointe Coupee (Parish) north through the Delta,

I’ve had my people out looking into these claims to make sure there are no violations of the quarantine. I’ve also had our invasive pest expert contact the stores mentioned in the e-mail (Lowe’s and...

[Although much of the downed timber is on private land, Odom is hoping to get federal approval to process much of it in sawmills. But the future of the wind-scoured forests] is my big concern,...

We’ve worked with the debris contractors, the [U.S.] Corps of Engineers and FEMA to handle debris and quarantines.

It’s hard to remember when losses have been so widespread across almost every crop and in every region of the state,