A watermelon cultivar developed at the now closed LSU AgCenter Calhoun Research Station has been nominated for boarding onto the Slow Food Ark of Taste.
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Farmer and rancher delegates to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 105th Convention today adopted policies to guide the organization’s work in 2024. Key topics ranged from artificial intelligence, to labor, to crop insurance.
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Despite several inches of rainfall in Louisiana over the last several days, an LSU crawfish expert says Louisianans will not see a boost in what’s expected to be a dismal crawfish season.
LSU AgCenter Crawfish Specialist Mark Shirley says the rain will help flush ponds, but will not increase crawfish harvest.
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Louisiana 4-H and FFA youth will gather in February for the 89th annual LSU AgCenter Livestock Show at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales.
AgCenter officials expect more than 2,000 exhibitors to bring thousands of animals for competition during the week of Feb. 10 to 17.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering financial assistance to agricultural producers and private landowners enrolled in its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to improve the health of their forests. The Forest Management Incentive, available through USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), can help participants with forest management practices, such as brush management and prescribed burning.
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The rodeo will be in Lake Charles this week.
The John Deere Sunshine 85th Annual Southwest District Livestock Show & Rodeo has a three-day run in Lake Charles from Feb. 1-3.
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Last month, I advised anticipating a record (not trend line, but a record) 2024 national average corn yield in your marketing strategy. Then, in USDA’s annual production summary, the national average corn yield increased 2.4 bu. per acre from November to a record 177.3 bu. per acre. To get to that number, USDA took 583,000 of the worst-yielding acres out of the harvested acreage tally.
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Louisiana’s crawfish harvest is expected to hit a historic low in 2024.
Crawfish specialists in Louisiana are attributing the conditions to adverse weather conditions, including drought.
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Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) is now accepting applications for the 2024 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP), funded through the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA-AMS).
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This report contains the results from the 2024 January Milk Production Report.
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The LSU AgCenter will hold its annual Precision Agriculture Summit Feb. 16 near Alexandria.
The event was originally slated for Jan. 17. Winter weather caused it to be rescheduled.
A joint effort of the AgCenter and Fletcher Technical Community College, the summit will take place at the State Evacuation Shelter, 8125 U.S. Highway 71, adjacent to the LSU Alexandria campus.
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A Georgia sheep dog was named the 2024 Farm Dog of the Year.
Skippy, a 4-year-old mixed breed, won the award at the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention in Salt Lake City.
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The port will receive funding through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) competitive Grant Program, which aims to advance the Biden Administration’s priorities for rebuilding US infrastructure by funding multimodal freight and highway projects.
Port NOLA received a total of $300 million in government grants, including the $226 million INFRA Grant and $73.77 million from the MEGA Grant Program, to assist the first phase of the $1.8 billion container terminal building project.
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As emissions become a greater concern, farmers are implementing various strategies to address and reduce methane produced by livestock.
Seaweed is one of those tools on which studies such as a recent one conducted by Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are looking to prove efficacy.
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