Agriculture
Farm field day set for July 10 in St. Landry Parish
PALMETTO, La. – The LSU AgCenter will hold a rice and soybean producer field tour on July 10 at a local farm. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., the tour will include talks by LSU AgCenter experts on rice c...
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Sugarcane field day scheduled for July 18
The LSU AgCenter’s 30th Annual Sugarcane Field Day will be held July 18 at the Sugar Research Station near St. Gabriel, beginning with registration at 8:30 a.m. Field tours beginning at 9 a.m. wi...
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CONGRESSMAN BOUSTANY assembled a panel of experts to discuss increasing regulatory pressure on agriculture and the outlook for the 2012 Farm Bill during the fifth annual Farm Day Forum he sponsored Friday in Crowley. Pictured, from left, are Don Parrish of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Sam Phillips, assistant secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Cong. Charles W. Boustany, Jr., MD, Randy Russell, a former chief of staff with USDA, and Bobby Simoneaux, assistant director of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s pesticide and environmental programs.
Farm Day Forum focuses on increasing regulations, fate of the 2012 Farm Bill
The increase in regulatory orders issued by federal agencies without Congressional oversight and the fate of the 2012 Farm Bill highlighted the fifth annual Farm Day Forum hosted by U.S. Congressm...
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LDAF, Jeff Davis Parish and grain farmers enter into Lacassine lease agreement
  Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D. V.M., leased 2.4 acres of the state-owned Lacassine Industrial Park to the South Louisiana Rail Facility and Jeff Davis Parish in a signing ...
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Blackbird control baiting program to begin locally in mid-February
As rice farmers prepare to make decisions about how much rice they will plant rice this year, they are subject to uncertainty in rice prices, great fluctuation in prices for fuel, fertilizer, and e...
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Commissioner Strain reviews 2010 agriculture
Strain reviews 2010 agricultural year   Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M. said the state’s 2010 agricultural year was positive in production numbers and economic development...
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AgCenter announces 4 new rice varieties
CROWLEY – The Louisiana Rice Research Board learned Tuesday, Nov. 16, that farmers will have three new varieties of rice, developed by the LSU AgCenter, to consider for planting. The varieties are ...
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Farm Service Agency youth loans available
CROWLEY - The United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has authority to provide credit to rural youth loans as a tool to encourage young people to participate in 4-H, Fut...
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La. wheat acreage expected to increase
With substantially increased prices for wheat, Louisiana farmers are expected to plant a lot more of that commodity this fall. “I’ve gotten tons of calls,” said LSU AgCenter small grains breeder St...
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Citrus disease headed to La.
Louisiana citrus growers need to be on the lookout for sweet orange scab of citrus caused by the fungus Elsinoë australis. The disease recently was found on a satsuma tree in Orange, Texas, about 3...
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AgCenter researchers focus on food safety
Occasional food recalls because of contamination may create concerns about food safety, but these worries are often overstated, say two LSU AgCenter researchers who focus on food safety. Listeria, ...
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New help available for unemployed homeowners
Starting in August, a new federal program provides help for homeowners who have become unemployed so they can temporarily reduce or suspend their mortgage payments while they seek employment, accor...
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