LSU Ag Center Crawfish Specialist Mark Shirley warns crawfish connoisseurs that 2024 will be one of the worst mudbug seasons on record as far as prices and supply are concerned. He says it’s so dire farmers are averaging one to two mudbugs a trap.
Read MoreA watermelon cultivar developed at the now closed LSU AgCenter Calhoun Research Station has been nominated for boarding onto the Slow Food Ark of Taste.
The Red-N-Sweet is a 1987 LSU release. Its disease resistance, dark red flesh and intense sweetness made it a regionally popular watermelon until the late 1990s.
Read MoreAnyone wanting to become a certified Prescribed Burn Manager, or those wanting to re-certify as required every five years, should attend an Agricultural Prescribed Burn Manager Certification Class from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Yambilee Building, 1939 West Landry Street in Opelousas.
Read MoreMuch of the work LSU AgCenter nutrition agents are doing centers on the specific needs of the communities they serve.
In East Baton Rouge Parish, AgCenter nutrition agent Dewanna Bandy Drewery partnered with a local high school to provide nutrition classes for students and their parents.
Read MoreResearch efforts across all aspects of hemp production are currently needed to aid in the successful reestablishment and long-term success of this crop in the U.S. A 2020 survey of licensed U.S. hemp farmers determined one of the most challenging aspects of production was the lack of information on the efficacy of currently labeled hemp insecticides.
Read MoreThe LSU AgCenter and Fletcher Technical Community College are partnering to present two precision agriculture summits in early 2024.
The first event will be Jan. 17 at the State Evacuation Shelter, 8125 U.S. Highway 71, adjacent to the LSU Alexandria campus. The second is scheduled for Feb. 23 at Fletcher’s main campus, 1407 state Highway 311 in Schriever.
Read MoreIn St. Landry Parish, where soybeans, rice and sugarcane typically flourish, a new crop is rising high above one field.
On a 12-acre plot in the south Louisiana parish, Pat Deshotels and Matthew Indest have grown hemp three times, but this crop — standing thick in the field with tall, slender stalks leading to bunches of green leaves — is their most successful.
Read MoreCelebrating nearly three decades as an academic partner, the LSU AgCenter will present some of its top researchers as featured speakers in a group of conferences in late January.
Read MoreThe Farming for the Future workshop, held at the LSU AgCenter Avoyelles Parish Extension Office on Dec. 8, offered beginning farmers information on risk and financial farm management.
Participating in the workshop were farmers from Avoyelles, Rapides and Grant parishes who represented 20,000 acres in soybean and feed grain production.
Read MoreFor a second year, K through 12 students across the state were invited to participate in the Louisiana Farm to School Art Contest by submitting unique pieces of artwork that captured the theme of “What Farm to School Means to Me.”
Read MoreThe LSU AgCenter and LSU College of Agriculture announced the winners of their annual faculty and staff awards during a joint ceremony with the Southern University Ag Center and Southern University College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences Dec. 13 at the LSU Union Theatre.
Read MoreThis report also includes Marketing Year price projections for corn, cotton, rice and soybeans.
Read MoreThe past few years have seen a steady uptick in the amount of information about carbon sequestration or capture, but what is it and how does it work were questions answered at the annual Louisiana Forage Conference held on Dec. 1 in Alexandria.
Read MoreDecisions on variety selection are some of the earliest and most critical you will make. This information will help you decide which rice varieties are best suited to your particular growing conditions.
Read MoreKathryn “Kiki” Fontenot, an LSU AgCenter horticulturist who has educated students and Louisiana vegetable growers for more than a decade, will become director of the AgCenter Southwest Region in January.
As director, Fontenot will lead the AgCenter agents who assist agricultural producers, families and 4-H clubs for 14 parishes in southwestern Louisiana.
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