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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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Many new varieties of poinsettias come to market every year. (PHOTO/Allen Owings)
Thanksgiving kicks off poinsettia season
Thanksgiving week is the time when many people begin purchasing plants for the holiday season, and many poinsettias are available in stores and garden centers now, according to LSU AgCenter horticu...
Nov 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sweet potatoes add color, nutrients to holiday meals
The holidays are a perfect time to enjoy Louisiana sweet potatoes or yams, as they have come to be known. Louisiana yams are bred to have a soft, moist flesh and to be exceptionally sweet and flavo...
Nov 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fried turkey’s not necessarily unhealthful
Fried turkey is not as unhealthful as it sounds – if you don't eat the skin of the bird, according to LSU AgCenter nutritionist Beth Reames. In fact, experts recommend not eating the skin no matter...
Nov 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Soybeans are harvested on the Joey Olivier farm north of Arnaudville. Farmers statewide averaged 44 bushels per acre this year, a record harvest, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics. (PHOTO/Bruce Schultz)
Louisiana farmers produce record soybean crop
Louisiana farmers produced a record soybean crop this year, yielding 44 bushels on 1.11 million acres, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics. The previous high was 43 bushels in 20...
Nov 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thanksgiving dinner costs increase by 13.2 percent
Louisiana cooks shopping for Thanksgiving will find the costs of traditional dinner items up this year. The 2012 Thanksgiving market basket will average $44.35 for 10 people, according to an LSU Ag...
Nov 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bright red leaves of Pistacia chinenis provide brilliant fall color in Louisiana landscapes. (PHOTO/Allen Owings)
Add color to your fall landscape
You can include in your landscape many trees and shrubs that will provide significant color in fall and winter year after year. Although decidedly less than spectacular this far south, late Novembe...
Nov 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Whitetail deer (PHOTO/Submitted)
Research focuses on hemorrhagic disease in deer
An apparent increase in cases of hemorrhagic disease among deer in the Florida parishes of Louisiana has caused concern among hunters and wildlife experts. But that doesn’t mean the disease is on t...
Nov 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Researchers study demographic changes in Gulf Region
LSU AgCenter researchers are looking at eight key racial and ethnic groups in the Gulf of Mexico region to document their ties to the oil and gas industry and to examine the experiences of each gro...
Nov 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Members of the fifth- and sixth- grade 4-H Club at Success Preparatory Academy in New Orleans use their robot to clean up an “oil spill” as part of the National Youth Science Day Ecobot Challenge. (PHOTO/Johnny Morgan.)
New Orleans 4-H’ers design robot to clean up ‘oil spill’
NEW ORLEANS – Orleans Parish 4-H club members at Success Preparatory Academy in New Orleans took time away from regular school activities on Oct. 10 to build robots as part of the National Youth Sc...
Nov 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stacy Gill is the editor of the Zachary Plainsman-News and author of the regular column, Thinking Out Loud. (PHOTO/LSN)
Vote! Vote! get out, and Vote!
Vote, vote, get out and vote! This call to action cannot be stressed enough. Today, voting eligibility is determined by federal and state law, and unless you are under the age of 18, a convicted fe...
Nov 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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