U.S. diesel prices have soared back above the $4 per gallon mark and an ag economist says farmers have some decisions to make.
Greg McBride, Director of Brokerage with Allendale, tells Brownfield prices have risen more than 30-cents per gallon since the last week of June due to some cuts in oil production.
Read MoreGov. John Bel Edwards says more work is needed to close the gap in funding between the state’s two land-grant universities.
Across the nation, there is a huge gap between funding for historically Black and historically white land-grant universities within the same state, a report from the left-leaning think tank The Century Foundation finds.
Read MoreFalling chicken and pork prices as well as slowing demand for its beef products are reasons Tyson Foods cited on Monday for missing Wall Street expectations for third-quarter revenue and profit, Reuters reports.
Shares fell about 8%. The company said it is evaluating all operations and closing four more U.S. chicken plants in the latest bid to reduce costs, the article said.
Read MoreSection 2032A Special Use Valuation is a tool to help farm and ranch families preserve their businesses and manage their estate tax liability. The provision allows farmers and ranchers to pay estate taxes on the value of farmland based on agricultural use rather than what it would be worth if it were sold for development.
Read MoreCalifornia native Floyd D. Harris III knows that perseverance and hard work pay off. A recent graduate of Southern University, an 1890 land-grant university in Louisiana, Harris applied several times to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)/1890 National Scholars Program.
Read MoreOn August 7, 2023, starting at 7 AM, a burn ban will be in effect in Jackson Parish. The burn ban will prohibit all outdoor burning and will last until it is determined that the weather conditions are safe enough to lift the burn ban.
Read MoreImagine this. You are a new farmer who bought a plot of land in your hometown. You’re making important decisions for your operation like what to plant and where. If only you had a tool to identify historical information for what’s been grown on your land and in your area that would allow you to make better informed decisions to set up your new business for success.
Read More“It’s like a cross between dog food and burnt pizza,” said one attendee of the smell permeating the hot July air at Omega Protein, a sustainable menhaden processing plant near Abbeville. He was part of a group of 4-H youths participating in Marsh Maneuvers.
Read MoreThe LSU School of Veterinary Medicine is thrilled to announce the appointment of Gretchen Delcambre, DVM (LSU 2009), MS, as the assistant dean for student outreach and veterinary admissions, effective August 1, 2023. Dr. Delcambre has been an integral part of the LSU Vet Med team, serving as the director of veterinary outreach and admissions since July 2022.
Read MoreFor me, I’ll never understand those people who do all of this insanely edgy stuff, like hanging from tall buildings, leaping from one side of a gorge to another, or even dangling your legs over the Grand Canyon.
Call me scared if you want, but I can sleep perfectly fine at night knowing that I didn’t nearly send myself to the afterlife just because I wanted to “feel something.”
Read MoreJoy and Jo Banner, founders of the Descendants Project, issued a statement following a ruling Friday in their favor by Judge J. Sterling Snowdy of the 40th Judicial District in Louisiana.
Read MoreRice harvest is just getting underway in Louisiana and Bobby Hanks CEO of Supreme Rice says it’s running ahead of the average pace. “We’ve had some extremely dry weather here in Louisiana, which is allowed for continuous harvesting,” he says. “Normally we would see several days of interruptions with rains and showers that slow or stop the harvest.”
Read MoreOn any given day, Mark Mese can field messages from growers and nursery owners around the world about acquiring some of the hundreds of plants in his Baton Rouge nursery. Mese, a retired attorney, has about 3,000 square feet of greenhouses on his property, where he carefully tends each day to bromeliads, rare ferns, begonias, succulents and more.
Read MoreRay Schexnayder, with Schexnayder & Sons LLC, understands that as much as anyone. He says his farm will be short about 25 to 30 bushels of corn this year. Since corn can be used to help catch crawfish, it could affect how much are caught, and might affect the price next season.
Read MoreRice farmers in Louisiana are mining a tiny sliver of silver lining the coronavirus pandemic: U.S. demand for jasmine rice.
Paul Johnson of Welsh, La., is one of the farmers tapping into the existing U.S. market. In 2023, he planted each of his 1,800 rice acres to jasmine.
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