Southern Louisiana is experiencing one of its hottest and driest summers in recent history which has affected one of Louisiana's biggest industries, rice farms.
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You’ve probably heard the word biosecurity referencing animal health, but many still ask what exactly is it?
Basically, biosecurity protects our food system from disasters — both natural and manmade — and is how we prevent diseases from being transferred to people, animals, and properties. The goal of biosecurity is to keep diseases off farms and/or prevent them from spreading farther.
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The LSU AgCenter is receiving $4.02 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the five-year High Obesity Program (HOP). The program funds universities working with local cooperative extensions in mostly rural counties where 40% or more of adults have obesity.
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Preparing young people for careers in agriculture is the goal of the new LSU AgCenter internship program.
Tara Smith, executive associate vice president and director of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, said the idea is to allow college students to experience what the job of an extension employee entails.
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This report contains the results from the Crop Progress and Condition weekly survey. The survey is completed by parish extension agents’ visual observations and contact with producers in their parish.
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On Thursday, workers on a Bexar County ranch in Texas spotted a piece of luggage in the open while feeding livestock. According to multiple sources, the workers began investigating the bags and discovered what appeared to be human remains.
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Portions of the Midwest could see the most challenging weather yet this year, and according to leading ag meteorologists, it's creating more concerns for crop conditions. With heat forecast to top 100 degrees, along with little rain in this week’s forecast, crop conditions could deteriorate and the biggest risk in the western Corn Belt.
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Spike proteins conjure up the controversy surrounding COVID-19 and mRNA vaccines, but the infamous spike protein isn’t just helpful in spreading viruses — it can be weaponized to help stop them.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today an investment of more than $33 million to support capacity-building efforts at 1890 Land-grant Universities. This investment, administered through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), will support 82 research, Extension, and education projects across the nation’s 19 Historically Black Colleges and Universities designated as 1890 Land-grant Universities.
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There will be a cotton/corn/soybean field tour at the Northeast Research Station in St. Joseph next Tuesday, July 25th, beginning at 5 pm. It will feature talks on row spacing, fertility, weed control, disease and insect control. It will also have one stop showing the difference between planting cotton into 2 different cover crops. There will be a meal after the tours are over.
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“Hey, did you hear about the rice shortage news? You need to go stock up right now!” was the panicked call 27-year-old Sowmya Akshara, a resident of Sacramento, California, received from a friend around 3 pm on Friday, July 21. Shortly after, she rushed to the local Indian grocery store only to be met with empty shelves. This was the plight of several others across the United States after the Indian government revised its export policy on Thursday to ban the export of certain varieties of rice.
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Every Saturday at the German Coast Farmers Market in Destrehan, you'll find a man selling pineapples that he raised in his backyard. Robert 'Bob' Tranchant Jr. has been a vendor for 20 years, running what he calls 'Bob's Produce - The Pineapple Express.'
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The Dean Lee Research and Extension Center just south of Aleandrai will host an Agronomic Crops School August 3 from 4 to 7 PM. The program will be held at the state evacuation center, adjacent to the LSU-A campus.
Subjects include Commercially Available Seed Treatments and soybean nodulation…disease management programs in soybean, corn and grain sorghum…sprayer drone application in crops…the role of sprayer drones on insect pest management and field crops…weed control following Dicamba—or Glyphosate-based programs.
A sponsored meal will be provided.
For more information contact Dr. Daniel Stephenson at (318) 473-6520 or dstephenson@agcenter.lsu.edu.
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