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      <title>LSU AgCenter researchers using bugs for weed control</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/16/08) LSU AgCenter researchers think the salvinia weevil may be what they’ve been looking for as a way to control giant salvinia – an invasive aquatic species in the state. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Agribusiness summit brings leaders to New Orleans</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/8/08) Dozens of agricultural leaders from throughout Louisiana met recently to discuss ways to help make the state’s agricultural industry competitive in the 21st century, organizers said. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Louisianians encouraged to ‘Get It Growing’; LSU AgCenter publishes 2009 calendar</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/08/08) People in Louisiana love their gardens, and it shows in the new 2009 Get It Growing Lawn and Garden Calendar from the LSU AgCenter. Inspiring photos of flowers, plants and lawns are just a few of the reasons Louisiana gardeners and calendar lovers alike have made the calendar a perennial favorite. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>LSU AgCenter receives federal award for innovative efforts after 2005 hurricanes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/09/08) The LSU AgCenter is being recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its innovative efforts after the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. A team of faculty members and administrators from the LSU AgCenter have been selected to receive the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service’s Partnership Award for Innovative Program Models. The award will be presented Oct. 21 in Washington, D.C. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Plant materials conference set for Oct. 29</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/09/08) The 12th Louisiana Plant Materials Conference is scheduled for Oct. 29 at the LSU AgCenter’s Hammond Research Station. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>AOwings@agcenter.lsu.edu (Allen D. Owings)</dc:creator>
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      <title>LSU AgCenter names new head of Audubon Sugar Institute</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/10/08) The LSU AgCenter recently named Dr. Ben Legendre to head its Audubon Sugar Institute in St. Gabriel. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Nutrition research project needs pregnant women participants</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:40:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/10/09) Carol Lammi-Keefe, professor in the School of Human Ecology, is recruiting pregnant women in the Baton Rouge area to participate in a study evaluating the fat content in breast milk of women with gestational diabetes. To qualify this must be their first pregnancy in the past two years, and the participants must plan to breast feed. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Harvest brings more bad news for La. cotton industry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/13/08) Cotton harvest is wrapping up across Louisiana, and the situation is not good, according to industry observers. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Commercial organic vegetable workshop set for Nov.  12</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:45:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/14/08) A commercial organic vegetable production and marketing workshop will be held Nov. 12 at the at the LSU AgCenter’s Burden Center in Baton Rouge. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>CMotsenbocker@agcenter.lsu.edu (Carl E. Motsenbocker)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Hurricane ice helps state’s fishers</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:03:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/20/08) When the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) said they were prepared with ice for this hurricane season, they meant it. And what was left afterward is benefiting the state’s economy. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>LSU AgCenter launches new 4-H Web site aimed at 4th-6th graders</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/22/08) A new Web site, Louisiana 4-H Kids’ Clubhouse, will be officially launched at the State Fair of Louisiana on Oct. 29 during 4-H Fun Day, according to Mark Tassin, director of 4-H and youth programs at the LSU AgCenter. The site at www.4-Hclubhouse.com is tailored to fourth through sixth graders and features nearly a hundred games, quizzes, downloadable activities and videos. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>2009 Farmer-of-the-Year nominations now being accepted</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:42:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/24/08) To recognize the outstanding contributions made to Louisiana through agriculture, the Louisiana Agri-News Network, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry will honor the 2009 Louisiana Farmer of the Year. Nominations for the award are being accepted now through Dec. 15, 2008. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>CGautreaux@agcenter.lsu.edu (Craig Gautreaux)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Former 4-H’er takes lessons learned in agriculture to assist in Iraq reconstruction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/29/08) A former 4-H’er found out the lessons he learned in his Bossier Parish 4-H club 50 years ago came in handy halfway around the world in helping a war-torn nation. Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Lane Killen, who now resides at Fort Polk in Vernon Parish, used his knowledge of raising sheep and leadership in his job as an agricultural adviser on the Diyala Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq from May 10, 2007, to March 16, 2008. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Natchitoches 4-H’er wins Triumph Award through Special Olympics</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/30/08) READHIMER – Zachary Page, a 15-year-old Natchitoches Parish 4-H’er, has won the Triumph Award through Special Olympics Louisiana. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Cost savings in dairy operations to be theme of Nov. 12 field day</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:58:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/31/08) Feeding cows for optimum performance is the theme of this year’s field day at the LSU AgCenter’s Southeast Research Station near Franklinton, La., on Nov. 12. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>4-H has big day at State Fair of Louisiana</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:37:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/31/08) They celebrated and educated at the 2008 State Fair of Louisiana 4-H Fun Day Oct. 29. Featured activities included the 4-H Express, the Ark-La-Tex Ag Council Junior Livestock Sale, the launch of a new children’s Web site, a Platoon Patrol skit for pre-schoolers and a Louisiana 4-H Foundation drawing for $10,000. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Louisiana 4-H Museum hunting for items</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/13/08) The Louisiana 4-H Foundation is conducting a “scavenger hunt” in a quest to find memorabilia for display in the new Louisiana 4-H Museum in Mansura. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>RStRomain@agcenter.lsu.edu (Rose Anne St. Romain)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Losses evident as soybean farmers start harvest</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:52:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 10/06/08) Ray Schexnayder farms 1,800 acres of soybeans in Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes. Hurricanes Gustav and Ike left his fields scattered with tree limbs, and some covered with water.  “We had 200 acres that flooded. There’s nothing to them, just a little dry stem now.” - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Rice farmers struggle with hurricane aftereffects of salty surge, flooding rains</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:53:22 GMT</pubDate>
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