LSU Ag Center

Charles Hebert with the LSU Agriculture Center/4-H Director dropped by The Morning Report Thursday with students to share information about their hard work.

Cattlemen in the Lafourche Parish area are looking to return the favor to their north Louisiana peers who sent bales of hay to them following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike and a severe rain flood in Lafourche last December.

Louisiana's strawberry farmers worry that covers spread over their plants for the past week may not be enough to protect tender blossoms and ripening fruit from this week's deep freezes.

Although most of Louisiana is an agricultural disaster area, it's hard to see that in harvest predictions. The most recent federal estimates are for record and near-record yields of soybeans, rice and corn.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The LSU AgCenter offers an easy-to-use online tool for farmers who don't know what's eating their rice plants. Smart phones can reach it from the field.