This issue includes a special feature on whooping crane and efforts to bring it back to Louisiana. Other topics: educational change in Louisiana schools, Bt corn, catfish production, Super Plants, heating poultry houses, and costs of producing energy cane. 32 pages

Table 1. Comparison of tube heat and brooder heat at the Hill Farm poultry demonstration houses.

The LSU AgCenter lost two members of its faculty in 2012 with the untimely deaths of Ron Sheffield and Don Ferrin.

Plant viruses are biological entities made of RNA or DNA. They are disseminated by way of vectors, usually insects, although in many cases they are transmitted through seed, cuttings from infected plants or mechanical contact.

Renewable energy research and development are expanding in size and scope across the United States as the focus has shifted from the relatively simple process of producing ethanol from grain to producing a variety of biofuels through advanced cellulosic processes.

Since the debut of a landscape horticulture research and extension program at the Hammond Research Station in 2006, gardens supporting this new mission continue to expand.

The poultry houses at the Hill Farm Research Station are designed to provide the poultry growers of Louisiana evaluations of the latest innovations in equipment and management techniques for raising broilers under commercial conditions.

These are the trees that are part of the Louisiana Super Plants program.

These are the warm-season bedding plants that are part of the Louisiana Super Plants program.

These shrubs are part of the Louisiana Super Plants program.