The Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction is now accepting nominations for its annual induction ceremony, which will be held March 26, 2020, in Baton Rouge.
Crawfish season is just around the corner, but an LSU AgCenter crawfish expert advised that it’s too early to start flooding fields.
The LSU AgCenter will host a series of five crawfish meetings in south Louisiana to help producers get ready for the upcoming season.
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Rice waits to be harvested by the combine in the background in a field on the Michael Fruge farm near Eunice. (Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter.)
Farmers probably would like to forget the 2019 rice crop, which has been plagued by low yields.
Bad weather from the start of the growing season through harvest is being blamed.
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Sugarcane is planted for the first time in the history of the LSU AgCenter Dean Lee Research and Extension Center near Alexandria on Aug. 14, 2019. This plot will be used to study cold tolerance as Louisiana’s sugarcane belt expands northward. (Photo by Olivia McClure/LSU AgCenter)
The fields at the LSU AgCenter Dean Lee Research and Extension Center have seen all sorts of crop trials over the years — but never any involving sugarcane.
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