For Texas rice farmers determined to hang onto their land, crawfish offer clear benefits. Omnivores and swamp creatures at heart, mudbugs thrive in the low, warm, plant-filled waters of rice paddies.

Adler Stelly on his boat in Abbeville, Louisiana on March 15, 2024. Stelly has been farming crawfish his entire life and said he's been hit hard by the drought. It's a cloudy day in mid-March, and ...

WINNIE, TX (KTRK) -- It's the peak of crawfish season, and it's become a big business in Texas. Chances are you've had a pound or two, or 10. But have you ever wondered what it takes to get them from ...

RIMINI, S.C. — On Saturday, May 4, the annual Rosewood Crawfish Festival was getting started in Columbia. But did you know there are crawfish farmers right here in the Midlands that are busy all year ...

Demand for crawfish will likely surge during the Catholic season of Lent. Prices often fluctuate. We set out to see who sets the prices consumers pay, but the answer is not quite clear.

WINNIE, TX (KTRK) -- It's the peak of crawfish season, and it's become a big business in Texas. Chances are you've had a pound or two, or 10. But have you ever wondered what it takes to get them from ...

Climate Rice and Crawfish Pests A crawfish crawls through apple snails after harvest Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, at a farm in Kaplan, La. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel ...

Crawfish season typically runs from late winter through spring. Here’s when peak months hit in Texas and why weather matters.

ROANOKE, La. (WAFB) - Burt Tietje is a third generation Louisiana rice farmer who now spends half of his time harvesting crawfish. “We were a bunch of German grain farmers out here, but in 1970, we ...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Some wetland once thought of as useless could prove to be of value for Sikeston farmer Ben Hunter. Last month, Hunter was awarded a grant by the Missouri Department of Agriculture's ...

A crawfish farm and shipping facility in north Louisiana tested a viral innovation that is designed to make a seasonal, seconds-long task even faster for residents of the Bayou State. In an Instagram ...