Business State’s agriculture and forestry losses due to drought reach a staggering number By Deanna B. Narveson - November 30, 2023 A dump wagon drops cut sugar cane into a truck for Morris Farms Partnership in West Baton Rouge Parish in 2015. (File photo) FacebookXLinkedinEmailPrint Louisiana agriculture and forestry suffered $1.69 billion in damage due to this summer’s drought and excessive heat, according to preliminary estimates by LSU AgCenter experts. Already an INSIDER? Sign in.