LSU AgCenter Crop Enterprise Budgets 2022 And Farm Management Tools
Please see the links below for the LSU AgCenter’s 2022 enterprise budgets and farm management tools for your information. These planning tools (available for download in PDF and Microsoft Excel formats) allow growers and stakeholders to compare costs of competing crop enterprises for the 2022 crop year and input their own individualized farm data to evaluate net return estimates on a per-acre basis.
Thank you to the American Sugar Cane League, the Louisiana Rice Research Board, the Louisiana State Support Committee of Cotton Incorporated, and the Louisiana Soybean and Feed Grain Research and Promotion Board for their support of this applied economic work.
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Agricultural Policy and Market Situation Newsletter: January 2022
Despite significantly higher fertilizer prices across the globe throughout 2021, global nitrogen fertilizer demand appears to be set to increase in 2022. According to fertilizer analysts, demand destruction does not appear to be on the horizon.
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Louisiana FFA Members Compete In State Leadership Development Events
Louisiana FFA members recently gathered at McNeese State University to compete in State Leadership Development Events.
To be eligible for competition, members qualified through parish, district and area competitions this fall. The top two students or teams from each area were invited to participate in the state events.
“The benefits received from participating in an LDE include public speaking skills, communication strategies, leadership growth, confidence, memorization skills and teaching strategies,” said Cade LeJeune, executive secretary of the Louisiana FFA Association
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Central Region Crops and Cattle Forum
The LSU AgCenter will hold the Central Region Crops and Cattle Forum on Thursday, Jan. 6, at the State Evacuation Shelter near the LSUA campus in Alexandria.
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Evangeline Rice and Soybean Production School
The LSU AgCenter’s Annual Producers meeting will be on Wednesday, January 5, at the Crawfish Barn, 1789 Mayeauxville Rd., Ville Platte, LA 70586.
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Louisiana Cattle Producers: Feedback Requested
We would appreciate your feedback on the possibility of hosting a one or two day event where you could bring your bull(s) to the Dean Lee Research Station or nearby veterinary clinic to have breeding soundness exam(s) performed by a local veterinarian.
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Low Glycemic Rice Offers Health Benefits And Locally Grownb
Certain health issues preclude many people from consuming white rice. A new rice variety developed by the LSU AgCenter has a reduced glycemic score that is allowing people to put rice back on their plate. LSU AgCenter correspondent Craig Gautreaux has the story from the Cajun prairie of southwest Louisiana.
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LSU AgCenter Crops, Cattle Forum Set For January 6
The LSU AgCenter will hold the Central Region Crops and Cattle Forum on Thursday, Jan. 6, at the State Evacuation Shelter near the LSUA campus in Alexandria.
Registration will begin at 7:45 a.m. The program will get underway at 8:20 a.m. with opening comments by Tara Smith, director of the AgCenter Central Region.
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LSU, Southern Ag Centers Focus On Racial Understanding In Two-Day Workshop
Small steps in a positive direction that lead to substantive change was the theme of Coming Together for Racial Understanding, a joint workshop between the LSU and Southern University agricultural centers held Dec. 9 and 10.
The two-day event focused on group exercises, open dialogues and active listening opportunities that concentrated on inclusiveness.
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LSU AgCenter, LSU College Of Agriculture Honor Faculty, Staff At Award Ceremony
The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture recognized outstanding faculty and staff during an awards ceremony Dec. 14 at the LSU Foundation Center for Philanthropy.
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Fitting the Bill: AgCenter Researcher Honored With Ducks Unlimited Endowed Professorship
Kevin Ringelman, associate professor in the LSU School of Renewable and Natural Resources, has been named recipient of the prestigious H. Dale Hall Ducks Unlimited Endowed Professorship in Wetlands and Waterfowl Conservation.
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Multistate Team Awarded $5 Million to Research Invasive Species Harmful to Sweet Potatoes
A team of LSU AgCenter researchers, along with those from four other universities, have been awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant of more than $5 million to develop sweet potato varieties resistant to the invasive guava root-knot nematode.
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Central Research Station Brings International Acclaim
The 3,000-acre Central Research Station south of Baton Rouge is the one among the LSU AgCenter’s 15 research stations that has brought about the most international acclaim, but it is little known outside of the LSU campus.
The fame came from two remarkable events that happened there. Back in 2000, the world’s first transgenic goat was born at the station and then cloned to create a herd of goats that produced a substance in their milk that could be turned into a valuable heart medication. This was four years after Scotland’s historic Dolly the sheep was cloned.
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LSU AgCenter To Host Winter Crop Meeting December 15
The LSU AgCenter will host a crop production meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 15 at the Scott Center on the Macon Ridge Research Station in Winnsboro, La. The meeting will focus on strategies for diversifying crop production in the northeastern region of the state.
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Southeast Research Station Focuses On Dairy
Tucked in the rolling hills of Washington Parish sits the LSU AgCenter Southeast Research Station. Pastures, barns and a milking parlor dot the landscape as do the dairy cows that are the focus of the research at the station.
Established in 1944, the station opened at a time when many families in the Florida Parishes had at least a few dairy cows. The Franklinton Chamber of Commerce had been working for several years to get an experiment station in the area to conduct research applicable to dairy and beef cattle.
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