lsu agcenter

• By Vicky Boyd, Editor • The Louisiana State University AgCenter may have canceled its in-person rice field day in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, but research on the station near Crowley continued with nary a disruption following proper safety...

Dr. Jong Ham needs growers' help in identifying isolates of the bacterial panicle blight pathogen (Burkholderia glumae) and fungicide-resistant isolates sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani) in Louisiana rice fields. An associate professor in the Louisiana State University Department of Plant Pathology...

After only being allowed to meet virtually last year, rice farmers will be able to put boots on the ground at this year’s rice field day, which will be held June 30 at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey...

• By Deborah Willenborg • At the opening of the Allen Parish Rice Growers Association annual meeting May 26 in Kinder, Louisiana, President Eric Savant, a local rice grower, welcomed everyone back in-person for the first time in more than...

With rice fields finally growing and fields at permanent flood, rice farmers need to be on the lookout for diseases. There are many critical areas in rice production and disease management happens to be the one that farmers face...

• By Blake Wilson, Julian Lucero and Mark Shirley • Invasive apple snails — sometimes called giant, golden or channeled apple snails — are native to South America but have been introduced into many regions. Several species of apple snails...

Expected acreage reductions should yield a manageable crop that will help support prices • By Kurt Guidry • With rice planting continuing to move forward, the number of acres ultimately planted will likely be important to the overall price picture for...

Methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are both considered greenhouse gases which can be lost from agricultural fields. In general, flooded agricultural fields display a higher methane loss while upland fields display a higher nitrous oxide loss. New rice cultural...

• By Vernon Miller • Calling them the densest he’s ever seen, Louisiana State University AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson was startled to find invasive apple snail egg masses in St. James Parish. But he said preventative measures, and a little...

• By Bruce Schultz • Rice planting is wrapping up in south Louisiana, but wet weather has kept farmers out of the fields in the north. “It’s moving along pretty fast,” said Todd Fontenot, Louisiana State University AgCenter agent in Evangeline...

Take an integrated approach to disease management and consider several factors before making an application. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • No two farming seasons are alike, and that also goes for variations in plant disease severity from year to year. Nevertheless, plant...

In the song “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell sings, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” The COVID pandemic has reinforced this notion. Many things we used to take for granted,...

• By Bruce Schultz • Short-grain rice developed by the Louisiana State University AgCenter has been planted for a New Orleans company to make sake, a traditional Japanese beverage that is becoming more popular in the United States. The Pirogue variety...

• By Herry Utomo, Ida Wenefrida and Bob Butcher • Diabetes is a worldwide problem affecting more than 463 million people (9.3% of world population). In the United States alone, more than 34.2 million people have diabetes (10.5% of the...

• Kenneth Gautreaux • Feral pigs are a nuisance in many areas of the country, causing billions of dollars in damage. Scientists with the LSU AgCenter and the LSU Department of Chemistry are working on a bait and delivery system...