The Cotton Board recently held its 2022 Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona along with Cotton Incorporated’s Board of Directors. During this meeting, board members serving the Cotton Research and Promotion Program reviewed, analyzed, and voted to recommend Cotton Incorporated’s 2023 budget of $87 million to the Secretary of Agriculture. This budget recommendation reflects a $5 million increase from 2022.
Read MoreA Louisiana utility and a New York-based renewable energy company say a big solar farm will be built near a coal-fired Louisiana plant that closed last year.
Cleco Power and D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments LLC have a long-term agreement under which Shaw Renewable will build a 240-megawatt solar installation and Cleco will buy power from it, according to a news release.
Read MoreAbout 40 agriculture students from Marcus Oldham College in Australia were part of the annual Interagency Rolling Ag Field Tour in central Louisiana Aug. 10.
This year, the students’ scheduled tour of farm operations in Texas and Louisiana coincided with the traditional tour of central Louisiana farms, said Tara Smith, director of the LSU AgCenter Central Region.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Akiptan, Inc., the Cherokee Nation Economic Development Trust Authority (CNEDTA) and the Shared Capital Cooperative have been approved or conditionally approved as intermediary lenders through the Heirs’ Property Relending Program (HPRP). Once HPRP loans with these lenders close, these lenders will help agricultural producers and landowners resolve heirs’ land ownership and succession issues.
Read MoreA push by utility companies and environmentalists for Louisiana to embrace solar power has hit a roadblock in another parish. Despite a personal appeal by the head of Entergy Louisiana, St. James officials have temporarily halted construction of new solar panel farms.
Read MoreFeral swine populations continue to expand across Louisiana and much of the United States, causing substantial physical damage to agricultural lands. This report presents results from a statewide survey to estimate economic losses from feral swine activity on agricultural lands in Louisiana.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture announced another installment in assistance to commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021. More than 18,000 producers will soon receive new or updated pre-filled disaster applications to offset eligible crop losses.
Read MoreAs the importance of agriculture continues to be a focus throughout the world, students around the country understand the vital role it plays in everyday life. No more is this more evident than in the growth of membership in the National FFA Organization.
Read MoreIn 2013, forward-thinking member leaders of USA Rice had the foresight to formally establish the Rice Stewardship Partnership (RSP). This partnership, anchored by USA Rice and Ducks Unlimited, was a first-of-its-kind conservation delivery team focused on voluntary working lands conservation led by a farmer advisory committee with representatives in each rice-growing state.
Read MoreJoin Seeds to Success: The Louisiana Farm to School program for the 2022 Farm to School gathering in Baton Rouge on September 28 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Pennington Biomedical Convention Center.
Read MoreThe 2022 hurricane season has begun, and while we haven’t seen our first big storm, it is only a matter of time. As you make preparations for the storms to come and prepare your landscapes for the fall and winter months, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) reminds residents to only hire licensed professional arborists, landscape horticulturists, and landscape irrigation contractors when having work done on their property.
Read MoreClick below for the market report from the latest Red River Livestock Auction.
Read MoreThe United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has named thirteen Southern University students as 1890 National Scholars.
With the selection of 133 scholars at nineteen universities, Southern University received the second largest number of scholars, 13.
Read MoreCongressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) will host a town hall meeting in Sulphur on Thursday, August 18 to discuss issues facing Southwest Louisiana. He will answer questions and provide an update on his work in Congress. The event is open to the public.
Read MoreAs we approach late into the summer, we should be on the lookout for late-season lepidopteran pests of soybean. Soybean loopers can build large populations in a short amount of time and can be exaggerated by the use of broad-spectrum insecticides for stink bugs and three-cornered alfalfa hoppers.
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