Soybean acres in Louisiana, inoculation, biological seed treatments, plant populations and replanting.
This publication presents estimates of projected costs and returns for sweet potato production in Louisiana for the 2025 crop year.
The purpose of this report is to provide production cost estimates for crawfish enterprises.
A video on selecting soybean varieties
Soybean planting dates in the Northeast, Central, and Southwest Louisiana regions.
Planning a garden can be both exciting and overwhelming, especially when deciding what to plant and when to achieve a continual harvest.
This report presents projected costs and returns for beef cattle and forage crop production in Louisiana for 2024.
This document contains the estimated costs and returns for corn produciton in Louisiana for 2025.
This document contains the estimated costs and returns from cotton production in Louisiana from 2025.
This documnet contains the estimated costs and returns from sorghum production in Louisiana for 2025.
This document contains the estimated costs and returns from rice produciton in Louisiana in 2025.
This document contains the estimated costs and returns from soybean production in Louisiana in 2025.
This dccument contains the estimated costs and returns from wheat produciton in Louisiana for 2025.
This document contains the 2025 estiamted costs and returns for sugarcane production in Louisiana.
LSU AgCenter 2024 soybean variety testing
Hurricane Francine Caps Off Rainy Period, Causes Seed Damage in Louisiana Soybean
Blue mistflower, also known as floss flower and Ageratum, is an herbaceous perennial that flourishes in the heat and sun.
This plant has a fragrant leaf with about one-inch wide, flat-topped or dome-shaped flower clusters of small white flowers.
Applying desiccants in soybean as harvest aids.
2024 LSU AgCenter Soybean Production School.
A beautiful addition to the native landscape to plant as a lower growing plant with lime green leaves.
A native plant that grows in eastern and central North America.
For this week, RSFF looks at how to test for soil pathogens, fungi identification, raised garden beds, quince rust(again) and cranberry fruit worms.
Earlier this year, several media have recognized that our honeybee populations are robust. This version of BHB looks at how well our bees are doing and why.
A homeowner has an infestation of either wasps or honeybees. This version BHB discusses how to proceed when there is uncertainty about the pest.
Damage from a carpenterworm, fungus in the landscape, ID a tree and defoliated blueberries plants.
Louisiana may soybean planting update; managing flooded soybean fields.
Two pairs of topics are in this version of RSFF. There are two narratives about fig trees, and there are two about fruit and vegetable diseases.
RSFF discusses sycamore anthracnose, soil sampling, fig pruning and fire blight.
Beehive Buzz looks at a toxic condition known as "purple brood" caused by a native swamp plant.
This week's blog looks at a tree protection practice, at a new fruit publication about mayhaws, and at blending flower and vegetetable gardening.
soybean planting and replanting decisions. soybean varieties with flood tolerance.
This RSFF covers a variety of topics including a diseased leaf, pear varieties, whitefly pest and the identification of yellow flowers.
The premise of this narrative is to examine the impact of popular organic insecticides on beneficial insects like pollinators.
Preserving valuable shade trees, a brief narrative on treating lawn weeds, June bugs seem to be a possible pest of fig leaves, and some stinging caterpillars.
RSFF help homeowners with Florida betony, soil sampling, hawk predation and a plant disease called aster yellow.
Inoculating Soybean with Bradyrhizobium japonicum for Nitrogen Fixation.
Questions about honeybees, bumble bees, sweat bees, carpenter bees, and digger bees.
Planting pecans can be an excellent long-term, fruitful investment for your property.
RSFF looks at different aspects of our lawn and gardens. Puffball fungi is a topic as well as blackberry varieties. The common lawn burweed and its treatments.
A gardener asked about a foraging honeybee, and another asked how to help native bees. A homeowner asked how to control fire ants near a pond.
RSFF looks at how to identify landscape trees, home tea production with hibiscus, and a gardener finds a community of native ground-nesting bees.
RSFF looks at new temperature zone map. A gardener's tree suffered from deer damage. There is a discussion about firewood regulations.
This version of RSFF could be titled "fruit and bugs' because it identifies a bee and a wasp. There are narratives about olives and satsumas.
RSFF addresses issues to pruning roses, planting acorns, growing cool season flowers, and treating an ailing blackberry plant.
A homeowner found a turtle, a weed was identified with control advice, tree planting advice and a vegetable seedling suffered from sunscald.
A beekeeper asked about testing honey for pesticides, and the Beehive Buzz describes how to check for pesticides in honey.
There are a couple of narratives about native insects and recommendations for planting a fig tree. A gardener also asked about how to sell her herbal products.
2023 LSU AgCenter soybean variety trials and on-farm demonstrations.
A new hive pest was discovered in a southeastern state, and this blog discusses the yellow legged hornet and its possible impact to beekeeping.
RSFF suspects a tomato plant has herbicide damage. There is an item about surviving a wildfire and more about a droughty hydrangea and a azalea.
A beekeeper wanted information to start a beekeeping business and asked for information. This blog provides information on obtaining a state business license.
Utilizing soybean as a forage.
Small grain variety trials are conducted annually by scientists of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Agricultural Experiment Station.
BHB looks at how the drought of 2023 is affecting beekeeping.
RSFF discusses an infested holiday cactus, a stressed camellia shrub, A wood boring insect, a native lizard and cucumber beetles.
The Louisiana soybean crop is experiencing extreme heat and drought stress. David Moseley. LSU AgCenter. Irrigated and dryland soybean.
This weeks RSFF discusses some nasty insects like a venomous spider, bedbugs and more. Also, there is a predatory plant with red berries. Are they toxic?
This RSFF has some good news and some bad news. The good news a satsuma tree is making comeback. The bad news is that some vegetables are failing due to heat.
This BHB looks at two different questions about selling honey and about using systemic pesticides.
This week’s RSFF identifies a native fruit and a hawk, deer damage to roses and how to deal with them and a homeowner wants to eliminate an evergreen shrub.
Some topics include defective blackberries, using lake water for lawn irrigations, okra insect pests, and native fruit ID.
Louisiana July 2023 soybean production update.
Beehive Buzz looks at a special nectar plant, manuka, as nectar source for medicinal honey.
RSSF looks at walnut caterpillars, unwanted honeybees, rabbit damage, lawn weeds, and nutrient deficiency.
This blog looks at quince rust, a harmless snake, wild petunia, leaf smut and an orange insect.
A beekeeper asked about summer blooming plants for honeybees. This blog lists native plants with summer flowers.
RSFF presents some caterpillars with "eyes", a damaged cucumber, a black rat snake and a vinca bloom with a possible infection.
RSFF looks at both bacterial and fungal infections on a blanket flower, squash plants, and an azalea.
A honey consumer asked a safety question about a certain type of honey and botulism.
A beekeeper asked about the safety of using a popular herbicide near honeybee hives.
Sample for nematodes in soybean fields; irregular patches of poor growth.
RSFF looks at a tomato fruitworm, a green sweat bee, a carpenter bee and a juvenile assassin bug.
RSFF looks at insect, both harmful and beneficial, including a couple of native bees.
RSFF shares information about a native bee and about insect trapping. A gardener has an infected tomato.
This edition of Beehive Buzz shares information about insurance for beekeepers.
Iron deficiency chlorosis in soybean at the Dean Lee Research Station located in Alexandria, Louisiana.
RSFF shares a couple of images of a yellow butterfly. An extension agent asks about an invasive plant. A gardener asks thoughtful question about fertilizer.
This version of Beehive Buzz shares information for both homeowners and beekeepers regarding the humane removal of honeybees from home and other structures.
Here is an overdue edition of RSFF for your garden and landscape enthusiasts. There are plenty of plant IDs and some information on Louisiana medicinal plants.
Louisiana soybean early season planting update; freeze damage on soybean seedlings
RSFF looks at a longleaf beetle, at a carrion beetle and at honeybees feeding on honeydew.
Soybean early season management webinars.
The LSU AgCenter continues to examine the effect of soybean planting date on growth and development.
RSFF looks at the fungus among us including iris leaf spots, swamp lily fungus, stinkhorn fungus and oyster mushroom.
RSFF looks at feeding honeybees with sugar syrup. treating aphids with soapy water, and treating unwanted bagworms.
Gardeners need help with a composter, patience after a freeze, planting zone information, and a beetle infestation.
A Louisiana gardener has both chickens and honeybees.
Harmless lizard, Oak tree roots damaging the side walk, and Celeste fig with a fungal-infected, beetle-infested wood.