This issue provides information on how milk and milk products benefit your health.

This issue of the Smart Choices newsletter series gives information concerning the Meat and Bean Group in MyPyramid.

Tips for healthier fast food options.

Volunteers across Louisiana are teaching valuable lessons about character to young school children. The program features stories about six cute critters and the lessons they learn about personal character.

Quarterly Reports of the LSU AgCenter's extension programs in Tensas Parish for 2009. Topics include, Master Farmer Program Environmental Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, Agriculture and Natural Resources and 4-H Youth Development.

The 2010 Wild Woods Wanderings (WWW) camps were held July 11-16 and July 25-30, 2010. The camp addresses environmental educational to youth and adults. The year marks the 17th year the camps have been held.

A Community Nutrition Education Program that will improve your family's health. LSU AgCenter Nutrition educators will provide you with a way to: eat better for less; plan your meals and shop wisely; keep food safe to eat; prepare the foods you love in a healthier ways.

Commercial sales of crawfish in Louisiana date back to the late 1800s, and today's crawfish industry includes millions of pounds harvested from farms and natural habitats in the state. This publication covers a wide range of topics on crawfish production, including crawfish biology, pond design, forage management, stocking, water quality, harvesting, marketing and much more.

Knowing what is in your soil and what it needs is a basic and first step to a good crop and plant health. This off-season time is a good time to get this information and find the products you will require.

Measuring irrigation flow helps irrigators better manage and schedule irrigation. Measuring flow also is a tool for estimating irrigation water use. This publication will help irrigators learn to select, install and use propeller and ultrasonic flow meters as well as estimate flow without the aid of flow meters.

2011 recommended treatments and thresholds for corn and grain sorghum insects. Brief biological sketches of pests included. (PDF Format Only)

This 2011 guide was compiled by LSU AgCenter experts and includes regulations, precautions and suggestions for pest control in Louisiana. Detailed topics include drift of pesticides, hazards of pesticides to beneficial insects and wildlife, phytotoxicity and use of beneficial insects to control pest populations. A section on organic gardening also is included.

A Community Nutrition Education Program that will imrprove your family's health. (PDF Format Only)

Recent research shows that for some tomato products, pressure canning gives a higher-quality, more nutritious product. Step-by-step canning instructions are included in this publication. (PDF Format Only)

The attached table shows the five-year crop average yields in Tensas Parish.

Traveling to Baton Rouge, June 1, 2011, to represent Tensas Parish at the 4-H Day at the Capitol were members from the Tensas Academy Junior 4-H Club.

This report provides information on funding sources, program highlights for the area, and local issues that are being faced by the parish through the Extension Service.

Louisiana Wildlife News is a bimonthly publication intended to serve as an outlet for wildlife issues relevant to Louisiana and the Southeast. In addition to current news events, profiles on specific plant, wildlife and nuisance wildlife species are included in each issue.

This guide for 2010 contains suggestions for management of the most important or more prevalent diseases of Louisiana plants. It includes information on fungicides, bactericides and nematicides, as well as safety precautions for using them.

A quarterly newsletter from the Horticulture Division of the LSU AgCenter's School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences. (PDF Format Only)