Editor’s note: Over the past several months, The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate photographer Jill Pickett visited with several farmers in northwest Louisiana. The stories, photos and videos provide a glimpse at some of the various agricultural activities in Bossier, Caddo and DeSoto parishes. This is the fifth in the series. To see all content with this series, click Agriculture in NWLA: Get caught up on our series spotlighting local farmers.
Farming is all Sonny Kirby has known. His grandfather farmed, his father farmed and now his son is farming alongside him.
“It’s all I’ve ever done, you know, during the summers, when I was in high school and college, both, I’d work up here, you know, for my dad,” Sonny said. “Just all I’ve ever done; all I’ve ever wanted to do.”…