Fig season is well underway, and many fig varieties are wrapping up their production while others are still producing and ripening.
Good weather has allowed sugarcane farmers to get started planting their new crop.
It’s August in Louisiana, and we don’t recommend doing much in the garden or, shall we say, not much in this heat. Right now, it’s enough of a chore to help our struggling plants survive.
Take-all patch, also known as take-all root rot, is causing problems in some Louisiana lawns.
The fungus is frequently found in turfgrass roots without causing significant disease, said Raj Singh, LSU AgCenter plant doctor.
The harvest for the 2020 rice crop in south Louisiana is nearing the halfway point, and the result is a big improvement over a string of bad to mediocre years.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved his request to include crawfish in the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP).
Police jurors wanted input from the public — specifically, from parish crawfish farmers — before they authorized aerial spraying for mosquitoes in Acadia.
It started as a way to address the number of telephone calls and emails that had increased to hundreds a day as people stayed home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and had myriad questions as they started gardens — some for the first time.<
In the fight against viruses that have devastated honeybee colonies in recent years, an LSU AgCenter researcher is eyeing a physiological pathway as a potential solution.
Presentations for the virtual northeast Louisiana row rice field day were released July 27, providing farmers with the latest information from LSU AgCenter researchers.