A post-holiday feast: The CBS network and the SEC officially announced this morning that the LSU-Arkansas football game for the 2012 season will take place on Friday, Nov. 23, in Fayetteville. Kickoff for the Tigers and the Razorbacks is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. from Razorback Stadium, and the game will be a national telecast on CBS. It will mark only the second game for the Tigers in Fayetteville. The only other time that LSU has played in Fayetteville came in 1992, when the Razorbacks beat the Tigers, 30-6, in what was Arkansas’ first year in the SEC. The remainder of the CBS Sports 2012 SEC schedule will be announced later this summer.
The future is now: Forum 35 and the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations have begun taking applications for the 2012 John W. Barton Sr. Community Leadership Development Program, which trains young and emerging leaders in nonprofit governance and then matches them with local nonprofits for service on their boards of directors. Classes will commence June 12 and conclude in early September, with matching and placement events to be held in August and September. The application deadline is May 25. Complete details and application forms are available at the LANO website here.
On the grow: High prices for fertilizer and low prices for other crops could boost this year’s soybean acreage by 20% from the 996,700 acres planted in Louisiana last year, says LSU AgCenter soybean specialist Ron Levy. “I would say we’re going to be somewhere around 1.2 million acres,” Levy says. The high cost of fertilizer has moved some corn acreage into soybeans, he says, while some cotton acreage is being converted to soybeans because cotton prices are low. Soybean prices, however, are good, and exceeded $14 a bushel for the entire month of April on the Chicago Board of Trade. The optimal window for planting soybeans closes May 10, but around two-thirds of the crop is already planted, Levy says. “We could use a rain now to finish planting.” Concern remains that the warm winter could result in more insect and disease pressures for soybeans.
