For effective weed control, treat row rice as you would any other row crop.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
To successfully control weeds in furrow-irrigated rice — also known as row rice — growers will need to change from treating it...
• By Bruce Schultz •
A Louisiana State University AgCenter plant pathologist will use a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pinpoint the location of a gene in rice that could help farmers control a potentially devastating...
• By Kurt Guidry •
As we head into planting season for the 2021 rice crop, the current cash rice market in Louisiana has remained supported in the $20 to $21 per-barrel range ($12.35 to $12.96 per hundredweight). A 500,000...
If you farm rice in Louisiana and flood your rice fields for waterfowl, the Louisiana State University AgCenter needs your help. It is working several public and private organizations to develop preliminary data on whether waterfowl have varietal preferences.
If...
Pass a good time with the Louisiana State University AgCenter at our virtual crawfish boil, noon-1 p.m. CST, Feb. 25! Bring your crawfish questions for the experts.
LSU AgCenter aquaculture specialist Greg Lutz and research farm specialist John Sonnier will...
Three fixtures in Louisiana agriculture will be inducted into the Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction during a ceremony at L’Auberge Hotel in Baton Rouge March 4.
The new inductees are former Louisiana Farm Bureau President Ronnie Anderson, of Ethel; sugarcane...
Louisiana crawfish producers hope to rebound from hurricanes, pandemic this season.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The 2021 Louisiana crawfish season started off on a slow note as producers hoped to rebound from a double whammy caused by coronavirus-induced restaurant closures...
• By Kenneth Gautreaux •
Having a healthy farm economy is important on the local and national levels. To help farmers make informed choices, Louisiana State University AgCenter economists have released their latest budget planning and decision tools for the...
The Louisiana Master Farmer Program, a Louisiana State University AgCenter-led initiative that teaches about conservation, recently graduated its 2020 class.
Five new Master Farmer certifications as well as 14 recertifications were awarded recently during a virtual meeting of the Louisiana...
With the start of rice planting only two months away, the LSU AgCenter has prepared a series of video presentations by its experts to help farmers prepare for the 2021 crop. These are in place of the normal in-person...
Change is inevitable, they say, and with the start of 2021 comes a number of shifts.
Dr. Mo Way, who for 38 years has been at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont, will retire and ride into the...
• By Kurt Guidry •
Tight stocks and favorable demand have helped support rice prices for much of 2020, which saw a large increase in rice acres and the potential for drastically higher production and supply levels. Historically, this type...
The Louisiana State University AgCenter is planning to shift most of the rice meetings it holds each winter to a virtual format this year.
Topics will include rice economics, pest control, fertilization, variety development, soybeans and crawfish.
Presentations for Evangeline, Acadia,...
Third Provisia rice variety boasts strong blast resistance, longer kernel.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
If all goes as planned, Horizon Ag hopes to have enough seed of the new Provisia PVL03 rice variety to plant a very limited number of...
• By Kurt M. Guidry •
Despite several challenges in 2020, the rice market has been resilient and has remained fairly stable. The first challenge was the large increase in acres in 2020, most of which were in long grain....
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