It’s not every day that you get a retiree from IBM, another from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a third from General Motors returning to the family farm to continue a legacy that began years ago.
But this is just part of the excitement that Chris, Bernell and Allen Muse have brought to Louisiana 4-H in St. Helena Parish.
Read MoreWith many farmers too busy to attend field days and meetings, the LSU AgCenter has created the Louisiana Delta Crop Report podcast to keep them in the know.
The program, created four years ago by AgCenter agents Kylie Miller, Dennis Burns and R.L. Frazier, focuses on a wide variety of topics regarding agriculture in northeastern Louisiana.
Read MoreHot, dry weather in Louisiana has compromised the size of the sweet potato crop leading into the fall and winter seasons.
Louisiana is among the top four states in the nation that produces sweet potatoes.
Read MoreClick below for the preliminary results for the 2022 Corn and Grain Sorghum Core Blocks.
Read MoreFrom rooting up crops to destroying farm infrastructure, Louisiana’s growing population of feral hogs causes $91.1 million in damage to agricultural and timber lands each year, according to a newly released LSU AgCenter estimate.
Based on responses to a 2021 survey, the study found that hog damage costs landowners $66.2 million in crop losses and $24.9 million in other expenses annually.
Read MoreDescribed as a “visionary” and “inspiration” by colleagues, Saralene Seals was inducted into the National 4-H Hall of Fame in a ceremony held earlier this month in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreThe link to the Louisiana Crops Newsletter Volume 12, Issue 9 - October 2022 is below.
Read MoreAccording to the latest Beige Book published by the Federal Reserve, the Sixth District (Atlanta) observed that demand for agricultural products remained strong and that hot weather and dry conditions damaged crop yields, especially corn, in many areas of the District.
Read MoreThis month’s 2022/23 U.S. corn outlook is for reduced supplies, greater feed and residual use, lower exports and corn used for ethanol, and smaller ending stocks. Corn production is forecast at 13.895 billion bushels, down 49 million on a reduction in yield to 171.9 bushels per acre. Corn supplies are forecast at 15.322 billion bushels, a decline of 172 million bushels from last month, as lower production and beginning stocks are partially offset by higher imports.
Read MoreThe September 2022 Price & Production Summary gives prices for cattle, poultry, hogs and dairy.
Read MoreThree young chefs from Winn Parish brought home the Reserve Grand Champion award in the National Food Challenge contest at the Texas State Fair in Dallas on Oct. 4.
Claire Zak, LSU AgCenter Food and Fitness Board administrator and coordinator of the Louisiana 4-H Healthy Living program, said this is a major accomplishment because it is the first year for Louisiana 4-H to enter the competition.
Read MoreThis newsletter contains a summary of ag policy-related issues from the recent quarter.
Read MoreMore 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read More
