Agriculture
Holiday recycling helps you “Be the Solution” and protect the environment
Louisiana, like the rest of the nation, produces more garbage in December than any other month. Reducing, recycling and reusing helps reduce trash and keeps it out of the environment. You can “Be ...
Dec 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Landscape mulches of different types are evaluated in research plots at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station. (PHOTO/Allen Owings)
Now – or anytime – is a good time to mulch
As we approach the end of fall and the beginning of winter, we may have oak leaves and pine needles lying around in our landscapes in abundance. What can we do with these products? How about using ...
Dec 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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LSU AgCenter to set up food business incubator
The LSU AgCenter is in the process of establishing a food business incubator and has hired a veteran food consultant to coordinate it. Gaye Sandoz – who has 37 years of experience in the food proce...
Dec 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Minute drug delivery systems show promise of treating deep infections
It may be the ultimate “silver bullet” – an extremely small particle made of iron coated with ceramic and silver and finally a powerful drug that can find its way through the human body to target a...
Dec 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Monsanto district sales manager Dennis Marcantel presents a $10,000 check to the Pointe Coupee School District on Nov. 30 to help the schools purchase equipment such as Smart board technology and computers to help teachers extend their classrooms to the school gardens. Accepting the check is LSU AgCenter 4-H agent Jeanne Glaser and Pointe Coupee School Superintendent Linda D’Amico. (PHOTO/Johnny Morgan)
Ag company donates to school garden effort
MARINGOUIN--School gardens in Point Coupee Parish can make improvements in technology thanks to a $10,000 grant to purchase needed equipment. Monsanto, the agricultural chemical seed company made t...
Dec 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Erin Sullivan, state park’s program consultant, discusses wetlands animals to third-through fifth- grade students during the Louisiana Wetlands Exploration Day at Tickfaw State Park on Nov. 29. (PHOTO/Johnny Morgan)
Students explore wetlands through LSU AgCenter program
Elementary school students from Tangipahoa and Livingston parishes learned the importance of wetlands during Louisiana Wetlands Exploration Day on Nov. 29 at Tickfaw State Park. Third-, fourth- and...
Dec 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Registration now open for La. Envirothon environmental competition
Registration for the Louisiana Envirothon environmental competition to be held March 9 at the LSU Ag Center Burden Center in Baton Rouge is now open. The Louisiana Envirothon is an environmental pr...
Dec 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Watch out for extra holiday calories
Are you one of the many Americans who face the holiday season with some fear of gaining weight? The good news is that although many people gain weight from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day, rese...
Dec 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A loggerhead turtle inside a TED (turtle excluder device). (IMAGE/NOAA)
Sen. Landrieu announces NOAA will not implement TED requirements for La. shrimpers
U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., announced Wednesday that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is withdrawing a proposed rule that would require turtle excluder devices (...
Nov 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Strain urges Corps not to lower river levels
On Tuesday, Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF), sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Louisiana congressional delegation and...
Nov 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Seafood marketing program expanding
A seafood promotion and marketing project aimed at developing direct sales from fishermen to customers is being expanded along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. The new Louisiana Direct Seafood program is ...
Nov 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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LSU dairy science professor Chuck Boeneke chats with LSU AgCenter employee Ronda Clark as she enjoys an ice cream cone at the LSU Dairy Store last July. (PHOTO/Johnny Morgan)
LSU AgCenter Dairy Store provides popular items for holidays
The holidays mean an increase in mail orders for boxed cheese at the LSU AgCenter Dairy Store. The boxes contain two pounds of cheese that sell for $11.50 a box, plus tax and shipping charges, and ...
Nov 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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