Despite triple digit temperatures at points, well-hydrated rice farmers, researchers, wildlife specialists, and USA Rice staff gathered here this week to hear firsthand from scientists about the important work being done in rice.
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Hot and dry weather may limit the yields for some of Louisiana’s most important crops, though the full impact won’t be known until harvest, LSU AgCenter experts say.
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Corn Planted Acreage Up 29 Percent from 2022… Cotton Planted Acreage Down 33 Percent…Rice Planted Acreage Up 8 Percent …Soybean Planted Acreage Down 11 Percent
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The United States is one step closer to commercializing cultivated meat with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s approval of two lab-grown meat companies.
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Rural retailer Tractor Supply Co., along with the Tractor Supply Co. Foundation, have announced a $100,000 donation to Farmer Veteran Coalition’s Fellowship Fund ahead of the Independence Day weekend.
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It’s almost lyrical, the way that the people of Earth turn their shining faces up to the sun, the source of clean and inexpensive power for their futures.
Unless you live close to a solar farm. Then the lyricism can fade quickly into a surprisingly bitter debate over setbacks, zoning and “eyesores.”
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It’s now estimated 70% of the U.S. corn crop and 63% of soybeans across the U.S. are covered in drought. While the latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows drought expanded across Illinois and Indiana over the past seven days, increased chances of rain across the Corn Belt, including those two states, could hit at a critical time.
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USDA says 100% of the soybean crop in Iowa, Minnesota, and Louisiana is out of the ground. Emergence progress this season is ahead of the five-year average pace in every top soybean growing state. Monday’s Crop Progress report said 96% of the national soybean crop has emerged.
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Celebrating the 4th of July with a cookout will cost significantly more than two years ago, although prices have fallen slightly from record highs in 2022. Families will pay $67.73 to host an Independence Day cookout with 10 family members or friends, based on the 2023 American Farm Bureau Federation marketbasket survey.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation is currently accepting applications for the County Activities of Excellence program. Up to 24 innovative county Farm Bureau activities from across the nation will be selected to display at the 2024 AFBF Convention and Trade Show. Multiple county Farm Bureaus working together to plan and carry out an activity may submit a joint CAE application.
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A new crop disease reference guide co-edited by two LSU AgCenter-affiliated plant pathologists is designed to aid students, crop consultants and producers for decades to come.
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Yellowing leaves on soybeans? That has to be a potassium deficiency, right? Maybe not. While yellowing in the middle or upper canopy is usually a sign of potassium deficiency, it could mean something worse is lurking below the soil surface. Often, a superficial glance isn’t enough to get to the root of the problem.
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A satire publication calling itself The Dunning-Kruger Times has been writing sensational headlines about country music legend Garth Brooks — and too many farmers, ranchers, and other people on social media are falling for it. The most popular piece posted this week claims that Brooks was booed off the stage at the 123rd annual Texas Country Jamboree in Hambriston, and that he implied that his mostly conservative fanbase were “a–holes.”
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Stronger cattle prices combined with the recent run-up in crop prices aren’t enough to outweigh concerns about the impact high input prices will have on farmers this year and into 2024. While most economists agree the next 12 months could produce more financial challenges for agriculture, views vary on how much financial pressure producers will see and offer differing opinions on the U.S. crop production picture and commodity/feed prices.
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