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Keeping safe during National Fire Prevention Week Oct. 7-13
As temperatures begin to drop and consumers turn to alternative heating sources to stay warm, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) offers guidance on ways to avoid home fires t...
Oct 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stacy Gill, editor of the Zachary Plainsman, is currently enjoying a beach vacation. (Plainsman Staff photo)
Anticipation
Have you ever been excited over something - a trip, party or someone's visit - that you count the days, the hours, even the minutes before its/their arrival? You mark the days off with a Sharpie - ...
Oct 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cedar waxwing birds on holly. (PHOTO/Dan Gill)
Create bird habitats in your yard
Birds can contribute wonderful things to the enjoyment of a landscape, such as movement, color, sounds and even pest control. Gardeners almost universally welcome the presence of birds. They can ev...
Oct 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A unique feature of Conversation Piece azaleas is that flowers of different colors appear on the same plant. (PHOTO/Allen Owings)
Robin Hill azaleas include new Louisiana Super Plant
Encore azaleas have gathered considerable attention over the past 10 years, but we need to remember we had great, fall-flowering – sometimes referred to a multi-seasonal-flowering – azaleas before ...
Oct 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jay Wimberly demonstrates how a mallet is used to hit a ball during a polo match, as fellow player David Fennelly describes the technique. (PHOTO/Bruce Schultz)
LSU AgCenter hosts 2nd annual polo match fundraiser
FOLSOM, La.--Heavy rains prevented play of the polo match at the second annual Clover Cup on Sept. 30, which was a fundraiser for LSU AgCenter equine programs. But the festivities continued with a ...
Oct 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums bring brilliant color to fall gardens
It seems that everywhere you look in October you see chrysanthemums blooming. Widely available and relatively inexpensive, they are almost indispensable for providing quick color in the fall landsc...
Oct 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Franklin Parish High School football field is one of the LSU AgCenter’s Field of Excellence participants and was recently chosen “Field of the Year” by the Louisiana Turfgrass Association. The field was prepped and painted for the Franklin Parish-Oak Grove football game. (PHOTO/Craig Gautreaux)
Fields of ‘excellence’ prove safer for young athletes
A poorly maintained football field could be as dangerous as a 300-pound defensive tackle. Having healthy turf on a high school field helps the athletes play stronger and safer. The LSU AgCenter is ...
Oct 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Mary Parish 4-H’ers Joel Pellerin, Gabriella Darden and Michael Mancuso, from left, hold a $30,000 check that was presented to the Louisiana 4-H Youth Development program at the annual 4-H tailgate party before the LSU-Towson football game on Sept. 29. (PHOTO/Johnny Morgan)
Louisiana 4-H, UnitedHealthcare announce partnership to promote healthful living
The LSU AgCenter’s 4-H Youth Development department recently joined nine other states in a partnership with UnitedHealthcare to fight obesity. The partnership, called Eat4-Health, includes a $30,00...
Oct 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fall is for planting shrubs
Shrubs make up the main background plants for most home landscapes. Many home gardeners plant shrubs during spring because that is when most of us think about gardening and that is when garden cent...
Oct 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Michael Danna is director of public relations and host of the Farm Bureau’s long-running farm news program “This Week in Louisiana Agriculture.” (PHOTO/Submitted)
The President's Column: Sugar planting harvest
We’re in our sixth season here in Louisiana, at least according to sugarcane farmers. In order, they’re fall, winter, spring, summer, hurricane and grinding season. Back in the summer, sugarcane f...
Oct 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Driving the Future: New Legislation Gives Teens a Voice in Traffic Safety Programming
I am a teenager. I stay up too late; I wake up too late. I get emotional. I don’t want my parents circling me like hawks, and I definitely don’t want them to try to tell me what to do, especially b...
Sep 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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TOPS looks at 10 underappreciated ‘Super Foods’
Do you know what’s in your fridge? Believe it or not, there are many ordinary foods in there that have extraordinary nutritional value. Whether it’s a vegetable or seed, these foods can add flavor...
Sep 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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