The LSU AgCenter food safety team provides on-farm food safety training to farmworkers. (Photo by Jyoti Aryal)
As fresh produce growers navigate the requirements for controlling food safety risks, the LSU AgCenter is preparing a new set of educational programs to help them.
The Louisiana Rice Research Board has provided an additional $500,000 earmarked for an endowed super chair in the LSU AgCenter, bringing the total to $3 million to help fund research.
Bubba Richard and Dexter January load new barbed wire fencing for their 300 acres of pastures at Grand Chenier. (Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter)
Cattle owners trying to recover from two hurricanes in two months got help recently with donated supplies to rebuild.
Michelle Puissegur
The Louisiana 4-H Hall of Fame inducted 12 individuals, and the National 4-H Hall of Fame inducted 16 people, including Denver Loupe, of Louisiana, who was inducted posthumously.
Produce for sale at a farmers market. (LSU AgCenter file photo by Randy LaBauve.)
The Louisiana Farm to School Program has launched a survey seeking information on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting farmers who sell food products.
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