Small grain variety trials are conducted annually by scientists of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Agricultural Experiment Station to evaluate grain yield, agronomic performance and disease reaction of varieties and advanced breeding lines. The trials are conducted at seven LSU AgCenter research stations representative of the major soil and climate regions of the state.
Read MoreJoin Seeds to Success: The Louisiana Farm to School Program for the seventh annual farm to school conference at the Pennington Biomedical Convention Center on Oct. 11, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will emphasize three main components of farm to school: education, school gardens and local food purchasing.
Read MoreToday, the Port of South Louisiana (PortSL) and Ukraine Sea Ports Authority (USPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), launching a cooperative alliance directed at technical guidance toward planning, development, construction, administration, and operation and maintenance of port infrastructure, particularly when reconstruction begins in Ukraine. This non-binding agreement was signed by PortSL CEO Paul Matthews and USPA-head Yurii Lytvyn (not in attendance) and witnessed by Ukraine Consul General Vitalii Tarasiuk, Consul for Economic Issues Pavlo Moiseischenko, PortSL Commissioners Katie Klibert, D. Paul Robichaux, and Joey Murray, and PortSL staff.
Read MoreThe American Sugarcane League is helping students in Iberia Parish tour and explore Louisiana's culture at The Bayou Teche Museum.
Read MoreRoughly 60,000 acres have been burned by wildfires across Louisiana according to state officials, amid an unprecedented drought.
Sabine Parish has been one of the areas affected by numerous fires. Waylon Salters had good pasture conditions on his ranch near Florien, before fires nearly burned his barn and his house down.
Read MoreLast week, a series of wildfires broke out in Beauregard Parish in southwestern Louisiana, near the Texas border. Several communities received evacuation orders and the parish sheriff’s office estimates that 40,000 acres have burned so far. According to the most recent reports from Wednesday August 30, the fire is 50 percent contained – but dry vegetation and high winds are beginning to push the flames east.
Read MoreIntense downpours brought relief from high temperatures Monday to some parts of Louisiana, but officials say it did little to reduce the threat of wildfires that have now claimed more than 60,000 acres across the state.
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency has amended the Waters of the U.S. Rule. EPA’s Agricultural Advisor Rod Snyder tells Brownfield, “We’re basically, specifically addressing the removal of the significant nexus test as well as the adjacency test for wetlands. Those are things the Supreme Court was very clear about.”
Read MoreLouisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) Forestry enforcement agents were notified by the Natalbany Fire Department of a suspicious person threatening to set a large fire despite being aware of the current statewide burn ban.
Read MoreIf rice is any part of your business, you should plan to attend the 2023 USA Rice Outlook Conference this December 6-8 at the family-friendly and beautiful Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, California. Already the largest annual rice-specific event in North America, the space at this year’s Outlook Conference is expected to sell out quickly, and registration opened today.
Read MoreIt’s a few months early for most people in Louisiana to have crawfish on their minds. But the cycle of producing crawfish for those eagerly anticipated springtime boils is already underway — and this summer’s drought conditions could have an impact.
Read MoreOne of the largest wildfires in Louisiana history continued to burn Tuesday in Beauregard Parish having already destroyed more than 30,000 acres as emergency response personnel from across the South work to protect the most threatened town of Merryville with a command post in DeRidder.
Read MoreFrom the air, state leaders are getting a view of something they call historic.
“Never in the recorded history of the state have we ever seen fires of this magnitude and this scope,” said Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain.
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