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Byline: Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter What does it take to get started in production agriculture? The LSU AgCentera+-s Louisiana Young Ag Producers Program will provide some answers for high school [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter Gregg Henderson, the Paul K. Adams Professor of Urban Entomology at the LSU AgCenter, was named the recipient of the 2012 Recognition Award in Urban [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter Two new sweet potato varieties -- Orleans and 07-146 -- were featured at the LSU AgCenter Sweet Potato Research Station field day. This is the [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter Gregg Henderson, the Paul K. Adams Professor of Urban Entomology at the LSU AgCenter, recently received the 2012 Recognition Award in Urban Entomology from the [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter Gary Hay has been named the new director of the LSU AgCenter School of Animal Sciences effective Jan. 1, 2012. He had been serving as [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter The LSU AgCenter hosted a Dec. 13 ground-breaking ceremony for a new Animal and Food Sciences Laboratory Building on the Baton Rouge campus. The new [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter Lee Southern, the Doyle Chambers Distinguished Professor in Animal Sciences at the LSU AgCenter, recently was presented the poultry nutrition research award by the Poultry [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter A device that can 'harvest' an oil spill in open seas or in a marsh -- much like a combine harvests wheat and eliminates the [...]

After two major hurricanes in 2008, most Louisiana agricultural producers were hoping for a much-improved production environment this year. Unfortunately, 2009 has been a challenging one for the agricultural sector, [...]

Farmers and ranchers who lost livestock as a result of adverse weather a including hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008 a may be eligible for federal disaster payments, according to [...]

Asian soybean rust has been found in a soybean sentinel plot maintained by agricultural consultant Blaine Viator in St. Martin Parish near Coteau, La., according to LSU AgCenter plant pathologist [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter Falling futures prices for farm commodities combined with a general economic effect on demand and the leftover effects of hurricanes Gustav and Ike will put Louisiana [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter Researchers at the LSU AgCenter's Audubon Sugar Institute are combining their knowledge of sugarcane processing and chemical engineering to develop a synergy between sugar production and [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter Although gasoline is the fuel of choice for the American automobile, diesel is the fuel of choice for moving freight - whether by truck, train or [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter Louisiana's farmers are facing lost income from reduced yields and product quality in the neighborhood of $370 million to $450 million as a result of the [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter As more than 3 billion quart-size, high-density polyethylene motor-oil containers head for U.S. landfills each year, LSU AgCenter researchers are looking for ways to keep them [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren LSU AgCenter Communications Louisiana landowners will have the opportunity to learn how they may benefit from carbon credits at a conference on May 14 at Alexandria. 'A [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren LSU AgCenter Processing nonfood crops to produce biofuels and value-added chemicals can provide Louisiana with another vehicle for economic growth, according to LSU AgCenter officials. 'We think [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter Some Louisiana agricultural producers are being squeezed by rising energy costs and stagnant prices for their crops, while other producers are buoyed by rising commodity prices [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter Although only about 140 miles long, the Atchafalaya River is the fifth-largest ocean-discharging river in North America, said Andy Nyman, associate professor of wetland wildlife management [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter 'Good plants gone bad' is how an LSU AgCenter forester describes plants that have invaded the Louisiana landscape and created problems for farmers, forest owners and [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter Four members of the Louisiana State University AgCenter faculty have been named to positions of distinction - an endowed chair and endowed professorships in their areas [...]

Byline: Rick BogrenLSU AgCenter Two new sugarcane varieties released earlier this year and 'energy cane' were featured at the LSU AgCenter's recent sugarcane field day at the Sugar Research Station, [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren Two new sugarcane varieties released earlier this year will be featured at the LSU AgCenter's Sugarcane Field Day at the St. Gabriel Research Station south of Baton [...]

Byline: Rick Bogren BATON ROUGE, La. -- Extracting vitamin E from rice bran may become more cost effective and provide an expanded market for the rice byproduct if research in [...]

The article offers information on the Agricultural Leadership Development Program offered at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center.

The article focuses on the integration of information science with plant breeding in order to meet the increasing world food demand, and presents the views of professor Susan McCouch of Cornell University on the same.

The article discusses the sugarcane field day that was held at the Louisiana State University AgCenter Sugarcane Research Station at Saint Gabriel, Louisiana in July 2015 in which scientists discussed new sugarcane varieties and management options available to growers. Topics discussed include views of center's specialist Kenneth Gravois on the release of HoCP 04-838 variety, need for crop diversification to get pest and disease resistance and views of center's plant breeder Collins Kimbeng.

The article reports on an invitation by Ann Cash, chair of the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, to farmers and agency representatives from Louisiana and Arkansas, to met on June 21, 2013 to discuss the Boeuf-Tensas Water project to determine support for the project's feasibility study. The project aims to move water from the Arkansas River into Louisiana. Louisiana State University AgCenter vice chancellor Rogers Leonard reports that more than 50 people expressed support for the project.

The article discusses the impact of unusual weather conditions on wheat harvest predictions in Louisiana in 2013. Warmer-than-normal weather in February was followed by cooler weather and a late freeze in the last week of March. Cold weather in March is projected to result in harvest beginning two weeks later than normal.

The article reports that the Louisiana State University (LSU) AgCenter will conduct a wheat and oat field day on April 17, 2013 at the Macon Ridge Research Station south of Winnsboro, Louisiana.

The article announces that the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of 400,000 U.S. dollars to Dan Hayes, an assistant professor in the Louisiana State University (LSU) AgCenter Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering.

The article offers information on a free seminar on growing tomatoes in greenhouses to be conducted by the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (AgCenter) on March 1, 2013 at the Red River Research Station in Bossier City, Louisiana.

The article discusses the importance of keeping sites productive in managing forestlands. It notes that while the market for saw timber and plywood remains weak, short-term possibilities are in the strong demand for pulpwood for packaging and shipping containers. It cites the need for a good, genetically produced seedling to start off new planting after harvest since forestlands continues to provide sustainable contributions to Louisiana's economy and environment.

The article offers information on the 78th annual LSU AgCenter Livestock Show to be held at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, Louisiana on February 9-16, 2013.

The article offers information on a special label obtained by Louisiana from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use the insecticide Termidor. The label allows for 0.06 percent Termidor SC treatment three feet up the side of structure and 10 feet out from the foundation. It has five years validity, and allows for up to two applications per year at least 60 days apart.

The article informs about Formosan subterranean termite, used as military equipment in Second World War in the U.S. It informs that these termites expand their territories by producing winged alates and they digest cellulose material with the help of a bacteria presents in their digestive tract. It informs that scientists of National Agriculture Center of the U.S. trying to make a transgenic bacteria to replace with the bacteria present in termite to kill Formosan subterranean termite.

The article offers information on the one-day comprehensive workshop on how to make one's own biodiesel fuel from used vegetable oil to be conducted by the Louisiana State University (LSU) AgCenter at the W.A. Callegari Environmental Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on November 7, 2012.

The article highlights the field day at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service Sugarcane Research Unit on October 2, 2012 featuring crops such as energy cane and sweet sorghum that are high in biomass used in producing biofuels and biochemicals. The field day was part of an outreach program of the AgCenter Louisiania Institute for Biofuels and Bioprocessing as part of a 17 million dollars grant from the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.

The article reports on the impact of Hurricane Isaac on pecan crop production in Louisiana in September 2012. Charlie Graham of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center remarked on the possibility of 15 percent reduction in harvest estimates. It mentions significant crop damage caused by the hurricane in southeastern regions of the state. Graham also described possible quality of crops affected by the storm.

The article announces that David Constant has been appointed as head of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, a joint position shared between the Louisiana State University (LSU) AgCenter and the LSU College of Engineering.

The article announces that Lawrence Datnoff, head of the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology in Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter, was awarded the International Service Award by the American Phytopathological Society.

The article reports on the announcement by Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) on energy cane and sweet sorghum field day to be held at the U.S. Department of Agriculture- (USDA)-Agricultural Research Station Sugarcane Research Farm on October 2, 2012. LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist Kenneth Gravois states that the event will include visits to biomass quality laboratory and photoperiod and crossing house. It adds the Raceland Raw Sugar Factory tour in the event.

The article focuses on the Florida wax scale thriving on ornamental plants in Louisiana. It says that although the insect is infesting wide range of host plants which include shrubs, trees and non-woody plants, it is a specific problem on ornamental hollies. According to entomologist Tim Schowalter of Louisiana State University (LSU) Agricultural Center (AgCenter), the insects suck plant sap which removes carbohydrates responsible for plant growth.

The article focuses on anaplasmosis vaccine marketed by University Products LLC of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It mentions Missouri and Kentucky as among the states approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to sell the vaccine available to U.S. cattle and dairy producers. It discusses the mechanism on how the "killed vaccine" creates immunity of animals from anaplasmosis disease. Comment from E. Gene Luther of University Products is presented.

The article provides details about the Lousiana Biomass and Biofuels Summit, to be held at the Renaissance Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on September 11-12, 2012. It relates that the summit will include sessions on biomass feedstock and harvesting, as well as biomass conversion technologies, which aim to give landowners, crop producers, and fuel processing companies the information they need to take advantage of the numerous opportunities in biofuels and bioprocessing offered by the state.

The article discusses the 30th annual sugarcane field day at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Agricultural Center Sugar Research Station held on July 18, 2012. Presentations at the event focused on rust diseases and control of bermuda grass. Plant pathologist Jeff Hoy addressed the problems of brown rust for sugarcane during the spring season. Weed scientist Jim Griffin talked about how weather conditions in 2011 and the first half of 2012 have exacerbated the problem of bermuda grass.

The article reports that the Louisiana State University's agricultural center LSU AgCenter has discovered soybean rust in Rapides and Avoyelles parishes.

The article focuses on the problem with soybean podworm infestation in Louisiana. Entomologist David Kearns of the Lousiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) is collaborating with scientists in Mississippi and Arkansas to learn more about the pest and how to control it. Kerns is also studying ways of controlling spider mites affecting corn fields in Louisiana.

The article reports that a sugarcane disease known as orange rust was detected in July 2012 at low levels in the variety Ho 05-961 in two Louisiana fields, according to Louisiana State University Agriculture Center experts.