This report contains the results from the 2023 October Ag Yield Survey
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The head of USDA suggests one of the top requests for the 2023 Farm Bill might be too heavy a lift.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says updating reference prices for every commodity would cost $20 billion over ten years.
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Raleigh, N.C.-based climate technology company Natrx, provider of nature-based infrastructure technologies, announced on Oct. 11 that it has raised over $3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Ponderosa Ventures and Oval Park Capital. This raise brings the company’s total funding to date to more than $5.2 million.
Natrx president Matt Campbell is a Louisiana native who received his undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University.
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The LSU AgCenter and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture are partnering to bring a drone training curriculum to high school students across the state.
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Louisiana elected officials are rallying to find solutions to help protect the state’s shrimp fishermen from cheap foreign shrimp that critics say is depriving shrimpers of their livelihood and undermining public health.
Last month, the state Legislature’s Seafood Safety Task Force met to consider ways to stem the influx of shrimp from China and other nations amid concerns that the imported seafood may contain impurities that pose risks to the health of Louisianans.
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A black bear season may soon be enacted in Louisiana.
Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commissioners announced a notice of intent (NOI) will be introduced in their November meeting, detailing such a season.
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The LSU AgCenter and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture are partnering to bring a drone training curriculum to high school students across the state.
The program’s funding comes from a $800,000 grant awarded to Brian Gautreau, LSU AgCenter youth wetlands and education outreach program coordinator.
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Despite the state experiencing much-needed rain, officials are not sure when the drought will end.
“Hopefully we can get enough rain to at least help us with the burn ban situations and the wildfires throughout our state right now, but as far as getting enough to raise water levels, I don’t see it in the near forecast,” said Doug Anderson, public information officer for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is extending the deadline for the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program to January 13, 2024, to give eligible farmers, ranchers and forest landowners more time to apply for assistance. The original deadline was October 31, 2023.
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Developing more strategic partnerships will be critical to the success of the LSU AgCenter and College of Agriculture, the leader of those organizations said Oct. 9.
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The flagrant and rampant trade cheating of, and market manipulation by, India is nothing new to listeners of The Rice Stuff podcast, but with a renewed focus on the issues by Congress, it was time to talk India again.
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Farmers, such as Martin Larsen from Byron, Minnesota, are adapting their growing practices amid extreme weather events. If they don’t, they may lose their land — and their livelihoods — forever.
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Some 58.97 million birds, mostly egg-laying chickens and turkeys being raised for human consumption, have died in bird flu outbreaks that began in February 2022.
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Corn had been trading sideways between $4.77 and $4.89 since Aug. 11 until Friday when it never dropped below $4.92.
Technical traders have suggested the seasonal lows are already in for fall. They say Thursday’s breakout and corn struggling to trade below $4.75 are reasons why higher values should be coming soon.
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