Welcoming all with good music, great food and a heaping dose of Southern hospitality, Louisiana is an eclectic mix of large cities with day-long entertainment and smaller rural town with year-round recreational potential. Surrounding the city life, rural Louisiana offers endless fields of the state's staple crop: sugarcane. Those looking to invest in a large-acreage tract can take advantange of the fertile soil and tropical climate perfect for this crop, as well as cotton, soybeans and rice. Louisiana is also a great site to raise cattle, poultry and horses. Homebuyers looking for small-scale estates will find wonderful waterfront properties close to city amenities and the bountiful recreational opporutnities afforded by the neighboring Gulf of Mexico.
