The attached February Crop Market Update for Corn, Soybeans, Rice, and Cotton contains a discussion on USDA-reported supply and demand dynamics, export sales, and farm price implications for the 2022/23 marketing year.

Whether it was bull riding or barrel racing, a group of children with special needs go to experience the thrill of competition in their very own rodeo. LSU AgCenter reporter Craig Gautreaux was there for the excitement and has this report.

The LSU AgCenter – MENDELU Food Symposium 3.0 will take place March 20 – 24, 2023 in Efferson Hall on the LSU campus.

This guide includes helpful information on herbicides and weed control with detailed suggestions for aquatics, commercial nursery stock, field crops, forestry, fruit crops, home gardens, lawns and many other Louisiana crops. It includes information on different types of herbicide registrations, as well as information on herbicide labels and restricted uses. Also included are sprayer calibration techniques, suggestions for reducing herbicide drift and a guide to proper spray tip selection.

This guide was compiled by LSU AgCenter experts and includes regulations, precautions and suggestions for pest control in Louisiana. Detailed topics include drift of pesticides, hazards of pesticides to beneficial insects and wildlife, phytotoxicity and use of beneficial insects to control pest populations. A section on organic gardening also is included.

This guide contains suggestions for management of the most important or more prevalent diseases of Louisiana plants. It includes information on fungicides, bactericides and nematicides, as well as safety precautions for using them. Special features include:

• Suggestions for seed treatment of field crops and vegetables

• Soil fumigants, fungicides and decontaminants for greenhouses

• Appendix of trade names of fungicides and nematicides used in the guide

• Names and formulations of fungicides and nematicides used in the guide.

LSU researchers are conducting a first-of-its-kind study exploring carbon transport in the Mississippi River that may lead to global applications.

For the past ten years, LSU hydrologist Yi-Jun Xu has been studying dissolved carbon transport along the Mississippi River system to the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the emission of carbon into the atmosphere.

From the fertile soils of its farmlands to waterways that are crucial to commerce, Louisiana’s natural resources are key to the success of agriculture — and those involved in the industry have a duty to protect them, Gov. John Bel Edwards told a luncheon crowd of farmers, scientists and others Jan. 31.

Weeds are the largest economic threat to agriculture as a whole, whether in row crops, aquatics, rangelands or pastures. In Louisiana, the same conditions that help crops flourish also bring weeds. The long growing season, warm weather and high levels of precipitation allow weeds to emerge and set seeds over longer periods of time. A wide variety of soil types and agricultural systems also means a wide variety of weeds.