(09/30/19) Poultry producers heard about methods of disposing of chicken carcasses during the Hill Farm Research Station poultry field day.
(09/27/19) The LSU AgCenter has selected Jolt dianthus (Dianthus barbatus interspecific) as a 2019 fall Louisiana Super Plant.
(09/27/19) The LSU AgCenter will hold a meeting Nov. 13 to provide information on industrial hemp.
(09/26/19 Good stewardship of the land was the focus of a fall farm tour held at Somerset Plantation in Tensas Parish on Sept 24.
(09/24/19) Crawfish season is just around the corner, but an LSU AgCenter crawfish expert advised that it’s too early to start flooding fields.
(09/23/19) Cattle producers can limit the amount of time cattle feed on hay without any negative effects if the hay has good nutritional quality.
(09/23/19) Louisiana rice industry leaders kicked off the National Rice Month with donations of rice totaling almost 32,000 pounds to area food banks.
(09/23/19) The AgCenter will host events in Sept. and Oct. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, or EFNEP.
(09/20/19) Sixteen students from Calcasieu, Cameron and Beauregard parishes competed in the 2019 Cal-Cam Rice Growers Association Rice Cookoff.
(09/19/19) Nanoparticles made from the corn protein zein may provide the next generation of carriers for agricultural pesticides.
(Video 09/19/19) While crawfish season is still a ways off, farmers are now getting their fields ready.
(Video 09/19/19) Louisiana sugarcane farmers like to begin planting at the beginning of August. But this year, most didn’t start until the end of August.
(09//17/19) The Gay family is endowing a second professorship and creating an internship for work in sugarcane variety development.
(09/13/19) Your plant is not dead, but by the looks of it, it may not be among the living for long. How do you tell what’s going on?
(09/11/19) BATON ROUGE, La. — The LSU AgCenter has appointed Jeff Hoy as the new resident coordinator at its Sugar Research Station at St. Gabriel.
(09/10/19) The LSU AgCenter will host five crawfish meetings in south Louisiana to help producers get ready for the upcoming season.
(09/10/2019) Producers can hear updates on research and extension projects at a Poultry Field Day on Sept. 26 at the LSU AgCenter Hill Farm Research Station.
(09/09/19) The fourth annual Louisiana Farm to School Conference will be held Oct. 22-23 at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
(09/09/19) Children between the ages of 3 and 8 are invited to enjoy book readings and crafts during StoryTime in the Garden on Oct. 5.
Video (9/16/19) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard explains why the candlestick plant, or cassia, is a great choice for your yard.
(Video 9/9/19) LSU AgCenter horticulturist Heather Kirk-Ballard suggests growing a beautiful plant American beautyberry.
(09/06/19) With tariffs and other trade issues leading the news, a recent international delegation brought good news to the LSU AgCenter.
(09/0619) This week, we will take a look at how to determine what’s going on when plants look fatally ill or are dead.
(09/05/19) The LSU AgCenter will present the Corn Maze at the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden on Oct. 5, 12, 19 and 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
(Video 09/04/19) Louisiana rice farmers had adverse growing conditions during the season, which has led to low yields.
(Video 09/04/19) Sweet potato growers have faced trying growing conditions. But as the harvest approaches, it looks like there is a good crop out there.