Armstrong Crickets announces the retirement of Bill Armstrong, owner of Armstrong’s Cricket Farm.  Bill inherited the company from his father, Gene, and continued in his footsteps to keep Armstrong Cricket Farm as one of the largest cricket growers in the United States. 

What makes Armstrong Crickets The Original? Tal Armstrong was the first to start the cricket industry in the United States back in the mid ‘40s. He began his farms with the Acheta domestica cricket. Although there are many types of crickets in the US, Tal discovered through his fishing hobby that bream preferred the Acheta domestica.

Since the 1990s, Louisiana farm owner, Jack Armstrong, has thrown an annual Mardi Gras party in West Monroe to coincide with the Krewe of Janus parade. The parade begins directly in front of one of Armstrong's cricket breeding buildings and travels through the downtown areas of West Monroe and Monroe.