Heavy rain is likely, once again, and it looks like some of the hardest hit areas in recent weeks will once again bear the brunt of this next system. There will also be at least some potential for severe weather. Over the last 24 hours, there has been an uptick in forecast rainfall amounts, as well as severe weather parameters. I've included forecast rain totals through Thursday night.
Read MoreWater is both a blessing and a curse for farmers in the fertile soils of the Mississippi Delta. Quality, quantity and availability see silent shifts from year to year and add to the thrilling challenge of growing good crops in one of nature’s most unpredictable environments.
“Water is king,” said Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain. “What did Mark Twain say about water? ‘Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting’ – think about that.”
Read MoreThe Avoyelles Parish Farm Service Agency (FSA) office in Marksville is hiring a full time Program Technician (PT). The deadline to apply is May 14, 2024.
Duties include general office activities supporting FSA programs administered at the field level. Successful applicants must be reliable, have a professional attitude and enjoy working with the public.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds agricultural producers that Farm Loan Programs can be used to support a variety of climate-smart agriculture practices, which build on many practices that farmers and ranchers already use, like cover cropping, nutrient management and conservation tillage.
Read MoreAccording to the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Louisiana, there were 5.9 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Sunday, April 28, 2024. Topsoil moisture supplies were 0 percent very short, 6 percent short, 72 percent adequate, and 22 percent surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies were 0 percent very short, 6 percent short, 83 percent adequate, and 11 percent surplus.
Read MoreScientists from multiple states convened earlier this month to collaborate and share research at the Management of Invasive Species in Wetlands workshop held on the campus of LSU.
Pramod Pantha, a postdoctoral researcher in Maheshi Dassanayake’s laboratory in the LSU Department of Biological Sciences, helped to put the event together and opened the proceedings with a discussion of genomic insights into invasive traits using Phragmites australis, or roseau cane, as a model.
Read MoreLow prices have encouraged export sales of all growths and U.S. cotton continues to move. Yet the level of sales is not sufficient to suggest that demand is improving. In fact, the level of sales does not even suggest any improvement in demand. Thus, cotton prices remain trapped within the narrow six cent, 77-83 cent trading range. The high 70s to low 80s trading range for both old crop and new crop will continue to prevail.
Read MoreThe DeSoto Parish Cattlemen’s Association Summer Field Day is set for Friday, May 10th, starting at 8:30.
Topics will include: herbicide plots, bull development program, heat stress in grazing beef cattle, farm pond maintenance and mineral supplementation of the cowherd.
Read MoreWhen fresh produce is unavailable or unaffordable, a healthy lifestyle is unattainable.
Ashley Webb and her husband, Andres Barcelo-Sanchez, moved to New Orleans four years ago and access to local groceries was extremely limited, so the couple decided to do something about it.
Read MoreThe number of farms in the United States has fallen below 2 million for the first time since before the Civil War, according to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture. In 2022, there were 1,900,487 farms in the country, a 7-percent decline from the level reported in the 2017 Census.
Read MoreA long-time veteran of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Casey Bean will join the American Sugar Alliance (ASA) as the organization’s trade consultant on May 1. Bean will work with ASA to analyze the complex global trade issues that impact U.S. sugar farmers and shape America’s no-cost sugar policy.
With more than thirty years of experience working with the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Bean’s work at FAS spans multiple regions across the globe including the countries of Bolivia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan, Pakistan, Peru, and Venezuela.
Read MoreMost people with even passing familiarity with LSU history know 1958 was a milestone year for the university. It was the first time the LSU Tigers claimed a national championship on the football field, a feat that wouldn’t be accomplished again for more than four decades.
Elsewhere on campus that year, another national championship was being celebrated.
Read MoreThe LSU AgCenter is partnering with Horizon Ag, a seed marketing and variety development company, to initiate a new rice breeding program focused on varieties for southern rice-producing areas, which include Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas.
Read MoreLouisiana is home to more than 720,000 head of cattle and some of those are bred specifically for the show ring.
For the past 11 years, the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers and Ranchers (YF&R) has hosted a youth livestock show. As per usual, children of all ages rounded up their cattle and traveled to the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales to participate in the event.
Read MoreThe Fourth Annual South Franklin Catfish Festival is happening next weekend, and Leslie Young and Elliot Britt joined Good Morning ArkLaMiss to talk about the event.
Young says the festival is a family-friendly event that will feature live music, classic cars, vendors, food trucks and catfish. Britt says the festival is a great way for local business to be represented and the community to come together.
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