The LSU AgCenter has named Ron Strahan as the Northwest Region director.
Strahan replaces Tara Smith, who was serving on an interim basis.
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Who can resist the taste of a cold, sweet Washington Parish watermelon? Not many it seems by the briskness of sales over the past month or so.
Watermelon sales tend to reach their zenith coming into the Fourth of July holiday each year. For two young produce salesmen in Zachary, the sales are slower now, but they still stick with it.
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Persistent rain and a gloomy, gray sky is not the forecast Jeb Fields had hoped for on the morning of the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station’s annual horticulture field day — an event normally headlined by a tour of sun-soaked, vividly colored gardens where newly released ornamental plants are tested.
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Two newly released sugarcane varieties with a familial breeding history were the focus of the 39th annual LSU AgCenter sugarcane field day in St. Gabriel. The two have the same parents, making them siblings — a first for the Louisiana sugarcane breeding program.
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Louisiana FFA members gathered in Alexandria in June for the 93rd Louisiana FFA State Convention. The convention recognized achievements of the organization’s members, thanked stakeholders and supporters and members elected the state officer team.
State officers serve as student leaders and advocates for agriculture and agricultural education.
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The last week of July is the best time of year to plant rice and Sorghum-Sudangrass for crawfish forage. Learn more with LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Sea Grant crawfish specialist Mark Shirley.
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For 25 years, Louisiana Agriculture magazine has been in the capable hands of Linda Foster Benedict.
As editor of the 65-year-old quarterly publication, Benedict has overseen 97 issues of the magazine, and she can’t pick a favorite.
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The LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Sea Grant showcased a new Seafood Processing Demonstration Laboratory at the AgCenter Iberia Research Station.
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Corn harvest should begin in approximately two weeks, according to Kylie Cater Miller, LSU Extension associate.
According to Miller, Concordia’s corn crop has made it to the black layer, and farmers are preparing their harvest equipment.
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Phosphorus is one of the three primary nutrients commonly found in fertilizers along with nitrogen and potassium. Phosphorus occurs naturally in soil, but it is usually in forms unavailable for plant uptake. Plants require phosphorus to grow, which is why farmers have been feeding it to their crops for centuries.
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As Congress is in the initial stages of crafting legislation for a new Farm Bill, it does so in an economic setting of increasing farm-sector incomes, general supply and logistical disruptions and uncertainty associated with the Coronavirus. The next Farm Bill is expected to address many competing policy priorities.
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This month’s 2022/23 U.S. corn outlook is for larger supplies and higher ending stocks. Corn beginning stocks are raised 25 million bushels, based on reduced feed and residual use for 2021/22 as indicated in the June 30th Grain Stocks report.
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The Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation recently gave the LSU AgCenter a generous endowment to fund two professorships in agricultural policy.
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As the 2022 rice growing season rolls steadily along, rice growers and rice industry professionals gathered at the LSU AgCenter’s H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station for its 113th annual Rice Field Day.
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Dr. Glen Gentry, Feral Swine Specialist at the LSU AgCenters Idlewild Research Station in East Feliciana Parish, has been working almost twenty years on finding a way to control feral hogs, using sodium nitrite as a bait. Now, he says, they may be getting close.
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