Louisiana 4-H and FFA livestock competitors from Minden to Metairie and all points between came together to participate in the 89th annual LSU AgCenter Livestock Show held from Feb. 10 to 17 at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales.
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A national sweet potato organization has honored Tara Smith, LSU AgCenter executive associate vice president and director of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, for her leadership and extension and research efforts.
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When someone is sick, a doctor often will write a prescription to cure the ailment. In modern-day agriculture, high-tech tools can help farmers write different kinds of prescriptions to address problems in their fields — like determining how much and where fertilizer should be applied to be most effective.
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Children and adults alike can learn about the importance of agriculture at upcoming AgMagic events on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge and in the Greater New Orleans area.
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This set of material on USDA FSA ARC-CO and PLC farm programs is intended to present the operational mechanics of each program as well as identify work done by the LSU AgCenter to create Microsoft Excel based decision tools that allow growers to estimate their potential farm program payment under alternative MYA price and yield conditions.
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The Louisiana agriculture industry lost one of its greatest champions when Ray Young died last month after more than half a century of service to the farming community. Yet his legacy lives on through the Ray and Dorothy Young Endowed Graduate Student Award in Field Crop Integrated Pest Management.
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Volume 14, Issue 1 of the LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana Crops Newsletter includes Estimating the Redbanded Stink Bug Threat for the 2024 Soybean Growing Season, Inoculating Soybean with Bradyrhizobium japonicum for Nitrogen Fixatio, and Kicking Around DIRT and Other Irrigation Recommendations.
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This crop market update contains relevant information on the domestic and international market dynamics of the corn, soybean, rice, and cotton markets.
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Jon Carr has been named executive director of the Louisiana 4-H Foundation.
Previously serving as director of development for the LSU Foundation as a fundraiser for the College of Engineering.
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Inside a small building on the grounds of the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center near Cottonport, a group of prison staff and trusties gathered around a table where LSU AgCenter agent Keith Hawkins had spread out an array of tools used in beekeeping.
Following along in a thick stack of printouts, the correctional officers and inmates listened intently as Hawkins ran through a slide presentation outlining the basics of setting up beehives, caring for bees and extracting honey.
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The Herb Society of America Baton Rouge Unit will host Herb Day on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden.
At Herb Day, guests can find thousands of healthy herbs and All-America Selections vegetable plants as well as local vendors selling their handmade wares and food trucks selling delicious fare.
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Since the passing of legislation in Louisiana in 2019, farmers have been able to grow hemp once again. With only three years of growing since the passing of this legislation, growers have faced challenges and look to the future for promising opportunities in the production of this specialty crop.
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Although she grew up in a massive city in India known for its information technology industry, Babitha Jampala’s mind was never far from the family farm and agriculture.
Jampala’s father worked at a nuclear fuel complex in Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana, but at home he constantly talked of his childhood on a rice farm a few hours away.
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The LSU AgCenter will hold an agritourism education meeting for people involved or interested in agritourism from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23, at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station, 21549 Old Covington Hwy., Hammond.
Registration for the meeting will start at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 23.
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The LSU AgCenter is partnering with USDA to offer the ASPIRE [Agricultural Sciences Professional Internships in Research and Extension] Program during the summer of 2024. Undergraduate students (from any college or educational institution, including LSU) are encouraged to apply for various 10- week paid summer internships. There are internships focused in animal science, horticulture, 4-H, nutrition, entomology and aquaculture.
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