Orgeron awarded Legendre professorship
LSU AgCenter weed scientist Al Orgeron has been named the Benjamin L. Legendre Sr. Sugar Heritage American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Professor.
LSU AgCenter weed scientist Al Orgeron has been named the Benjamin L. Legendre Sr. Sugar Heritage American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Professor.
Mark Shirley, LSU AgCenter aquaculture specialist, finds a few crawfish in a pond near Abbeville days after the recent freeze. Shirley expects the warm weather to revive crawfish, making them more plentiful for the marketplace. Unfortunately for producers, the freeze hit at the peak of the season. (Photo by Bruce Schultz / LSU AgCenter)
The LSU AgCenter is surveying agricultural producers to estimate damage totals resulting from last month’s freezing weather.
The rice industry was reeling from severe weather in 2020 – the most named hurricanes to hit the U.S. ever and devastating wildfires out west.
Nearly 3 inches of snow and ice cover a sugarcane row on Fletcher Bubenzer’s farm near Bunkie. Louisiana had more than 60 hours of subfreezing temperatures, including record low temperatures in the low teens across much of the northern sugarcane growing regions. (Photo provided by Fletcher Bubenzer)
More than 60 hours of subfreezing temperatures, including lows in the mid- to lower teens in the northern region of the Louisiana sugarcane belt, has many growers concerned about the effects it wil
Three fixtures in Louisiana agriculture— including one from Acadia Parish — will be inducted into the Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction during a ceremony at L’Auberge Hotel in Baton Rouge o
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