Louisiana pesticide applicator recertification looks a little different than in years past. Beginning in the late summer of 2020 the LSU AgCenter worked with Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) to provide different options for commercial pesticide applicators to become recertified to meet state and federal requirements.
Read MoreSeveral Webinars about crops to be grown this upcoming season have been scheduled by the Louisiana Agricultural Consultants Association.
Read MoreConditions are good for the crawfish season that is about to kick into harvest season.
“It looks like conditions were all pretty good for what looks like a good crawfish season,” said Todd Fontenot, Evangeline Parish county agent.
There are a handful of new rice varieties and rice hybrids that will be available in 2021 that will change the landscape of the rice grown in Louisiana. There are also a few rice varieties and hybrids that will virtually disappear in the coming season. I will do my best to cover the biggest variety and hybrid changes for 2021 in each rice class below.
Read MoreFungicides are important tools in rice disease management. All too often sheath blight, blast, grain smuts or Cercospora require a fungicide application to reduce damage below economic levels. Fungicides are specific to what diseases they control, along with the growth stage they are applied at to be effective.
Read MoreIn today’s industry, rice farmers need to consider pest management strategies well before rice is planted. Insecticidal seed treatments have become central to rice pest management programs in recent years, and deciding which product to select will determine how pest control is approached during the growing season.
Read MoreAn LSU AgCenter plant pathologist will use a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pinpoint the location of a gene in rice that could help farmers control a potentially devastating plant disease.
“Our goal is to characterize the resistance to narrow brown leaf spot at the genetic and functional level,” said Jonathan Richards.
Read MoreDifferent farm program payments across crops have been an on-going US farm policy issue, with the focus often on high per acre payments to cotton, peanuts, and rice. Coppess discusses this issue extensively. An important economic question is, “Have different payments impacted the geographical distribution of US crops?”
Read MoreAmerican rice farmers faced numerous challenges in 2020, from record rainfall, swollen river basins, a relentless hurricane season for the Gulf of Mexico, unprecedented wildfires in the West, and a global pandemic. Despite these obstacles, rice farmers produced an abundant crop across the six major rice-growing states.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of State granted a national interest exemption for H-2A and some H-2B workers from South Africa. Earlier this week President Biden signed a proclamation that limits and prohibits travel to the U.S. from certain countries, including South Africa, due to the COVID pandemic.
Read MoreConditions are good for the crawfish season that is about to kick into harvest season.
“It looks like conditions were all pretty good for what looks like a good crawfish season,” said Todd Fontenot, Evangeline Parish county agent.
Reports from farmers are coming in slow right now, he said.
Read MoreFollowing President Joe Biden’s inauguration last week, one potential opportunity for change in foreign policy is the U.S. relationship with Cuba.
Read MoreIraq’s Ministry of Trade has announced a global tender for 30,000 MT of rice. This tender is outside of the US-Iraq Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and can be filled by any country. Companies have one week to submit bid documents to the Ministry.
Read MoreIf you still have grain stored on the farm, are you confident it will be as high of quality when you pull it out as when you put it in? Gary Woodruff, district sales manager and grain conditioning expert for GSI, suggests taking steps to protect your investment inside your bins.
Read MoreWelcome to the 2021 Virtual Rice and Soybean Production Meeting. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its related protocols, the LSU AgCenter is having to provide information to our stakeholders in different ways.
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