hurricane damage

• By David Moseley, Daniel Stephenson, Sebe Brown, Boyd Padgett, Trey Price and Michael Deliberto • The 2020 soybean season has been one for the history books. In March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated Louisiana producers would increase soybean acres...

Soybean growers in the Mississippi Delta are hustling to beat Hurricane Delta. Row crop producers across the state are joining in the scramble to harvest as many of their crops as possible before the storm’s expected heavy rains batter their...

Most Louisiana soybean fields are in decent shape following Hurricane Laura, but there are pockets of serious damage in areas that received strong winds and rain. “Statewide, the crop fared pretty well,” said LSU AgCenter soybean specialist David Moseley, who...

• By Mary Hightower • Bryce Baldridge, a Lawrence County Extension staff chair for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, heard the warnings Thursday night. “They said a tornado was headed for Bono which is where I live,” he...

div { margin-right: 10px; } • By Ryan McGeeney • High winds and heavy rainfall from what forecasters expect will be a major hurricane — Hurricane Laura — will likely sweep through most of Arkansas by Friday, just as harvest nears for several...

The process of planting this year’s soybean crop in Mississippi has been anything but normal. The only consistent variable has been rain and a lot of it — from an unusually wet winter and spring to the stormwater the state...

While most of Arkansas may have escaped the worst of what Hurricane Barry augured in potential wind and rain, crops in many areas are struggling to move past the primary and secondary effects of the latest twist in an...

With a focus on economic development, the South Carolina agricultural industry is poised for positive productivity in 2019. This was the message Clemson experts gave during the recent third annual Ag Outlook conference. Clemson agricultural economists Nathan Smith, Scott Mickey,...

Hurricane Michael devastated crops in Alabama’s Wiregrass region.  But for farmers to have access to the most disaster assistance, officials need comprehensive data on projected yields, estimated losses and other agricultural impacts. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University...