The planting dates for soybean in Louisiana range from early March to late June, depending on production systems and maturity groups. This variability in planting dates can expose soybean plants to a myriad of insect pests that can injure both below and above ground plant parts.
Read MoreClick for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that allow growers the opportunity to evaluate the changes that herbicide selection, unit price, application rates, and tillage have on total weed control program costs on a per-acre basis.
Read MoreRice planting is well underway in southwest Louisiana and Texas. However, the crop is progressing slowly due to a variety of factors.
Read MoreThe apple snail, Pomacea maculata, is a global invasive rice pest. Within the past decade, the apple snail has established itself in Louisiana but has only recently begun infesting rice farms in the southwestern region.
Read MoreThe Agricultural Policy and Market Situation Newsletter (Volume V, Issue 1) contains a summary of agricultural policy happenings from the recent quarter (January 1st through March 31st).
Read MoreThe April Crop Market Update for Corn, Soybeans, Rice, and Cotton contains a discussion on USDA-reported supply and demand dynamics and farm price implications for the 2021/22 marketing year. The outside markets continue to monitor the Russia/Ukraine war as well as the slowing economy in China (due to the country’s COVID lockdown policy reducing import demand).
Read MoreConservation groups hoping to preserve waterfowl habitat on more than 800,000 acres of land have proposed a $375 million Environmental Quality Incentives Program initiative that would pay farmers to conserve small wetlands and flood rice fields after harvest.
Under the Migratory Bird Resurgence Initiative, the Natural Resources Conservation Service would reserve $250 million in funding for EQIP projects that conserve wetlands smaller than two acres in five prairie pothole states and $125 million for post-harvest flooding in California and four Southern states.
Read MoreLSU AgCenter researchers continue to study the benefits and challenges posed by the alternative rice growing method of planting rice on furrow-irrigated rows.
Read MoreLast week, India’s egregious World Trade Organization (WTO) domestic support violations, particularly those related to rice subsidies, were put front and center for U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai during two Congressional hearings.
Read MoreIn it’s latest prospective plantings report, USDA reports corn acreage in Louisiana this season will be down slightly while cotton acreage will be WAY up.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced the 2022 Marketing Assistance Loan rates.
Read MoreLast week, several USA Rice members worked together to deliver a shipment of U.S.-grown rice to help feed the people of Ukraine.
Read MoreThis probably isn’t a secret to most rice producers: Rice markets are different than those for other commodities in that, for openers, they are dominated by two countries – India and the People’s Republic of China.
Read MoreLast summer, Julie and Christian Richard hosted a video production team from Wild Hive, a strategy and communications firm from Austin, Texas, to take part in a project highlighting U.S. rice and seafood for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
Read MorePlanting in southern Louisiana and the Texas Rice Belt cranked up the week of Feb. 28. Dry conditions from October until now allowed fields to be prepared for drill seeding in the region and set the stage for a quick start to the planting season.
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