This newsletter contains a summary of ag policy-related issues from the recent quarter.
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More than a dozen LSU AgCenter scientists will give presentations on their work during a set of conferences to be held early next year in Baton Rouge.
The 26th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference, Southern Soybean and Corn Conference, Delta States Irrigation Conference and Southern Precision Ag Conference will take place Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Crowne Plaza hotel conference center.
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In October 2021, Jason Richard was doing exactly what he is doing this October. He was waking up at the same time before 5 a.m., climbing in the same John Deere, harvesting sugarcane in the same fields and hauling his crop to same place — the nearby Raceland Raw Sugar Corporation. But things looked a little different in Lafourche Parish 12 months ago.
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If you happen to be taking a walk in the all-too-brief temperate weather of October in Louisiana and stumble upon a tree with wide leaves and beautiful, yellow-orange fruit, don’t think about picking one and taking a bite. You will be in for a bitter disappointment.
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The LSU AgCenter, and the LA Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) will be hosting a workshop to enable agricultural landowners to burn their lands safely and legally, October 18 starting at 8:30 at 176 Research Station Road, Leesville, LA 71446.
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After a two-year pandemic hiatus, Louisiana Farm to School partners were finally back face to face for their annual meeting at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center on Sept. 28.
Seeds to Success: The Louisiana Farm to School Program is made possible through an agreement between the LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Department of Education Division of Nutrition Support and is funded through the United States Department of Agriculture.
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We all know farming isn’t easy every year is a gamble. This year being no different, some farmers in Acadiana say inflation and heavy rains everyday are hurting their bottom line.
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Get ready for some crazy, mazy fun for the entire family during Corn Maze at Burden 2022 happening at the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens each Saturday in October.
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A cooperative research project between the LSU AgCenter and the University of Malaya in Malaysia to develop “climate-smart” rice has received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service.
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Sugarcane farmers have begun their harvest, and that means south Louisiana sugar mills have opened their gates to accept the first loads of this year’s crop.
It also means highways are becoming busy with tractors and trucks hauling cane to be processed.
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A cooperative research project between the LSU AgCenter and the University of Malaya in Malaysia to develop “climate-smart” rice has received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service.
The award, part of the USDA FAS Scientific Cooperative Research Program, will assist scientists working to screen traditional rice varieties that can thrive in alternative water management strategies, which use less water than traditional rice-growing methods.
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The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently awarded a grant of more than $295,000 for a multi-year, collaborative project of rice entomologists at three universities to study insect management in furrow-irrigated rice.
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Slattery McCollam farms 2,800 acres of sugarcane near Schriever and Thibodaux in southern Louisiana, in Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish. It’s a large farm—a land area equivalent to half of all football stadiums in the world.
McCollam is in his second year of a research project with the LSU AgCenter.
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It is an understatement to say soybean farmers have had a challenging year in 2022. In April, farmers had to plant around several rain events. Despite the several April showers, 59% of the soybean fields in LA were planted by May 1 compared to the five-year average of 43% and 23% from last year.
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In the latest USDA supply and demand report released last week, forecasts for 2022/23 U.S. rice production were lowered 10.9 million (M) hundredweight (cwt) to 165.1 M cwt based on reduced harvested area and lower per acre yield estimates. Overall, U.S. all-rice production is 14% below a year earlier and the smallest crop since 1993/94.
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