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      <title>Louisiana AgSummary</title>
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      <title>Navigating Your Way to A New Home - Unit 1</title>
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      <title>Staying on Course with Financial Management</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Complete Unit 2 materials cover: Organizing your family finances by setting goals, developing a cash flow worksheet and net worth statement, developing a budget and managing your credit.  In addition, find helpful tips on homeowner tax planning, stretching your dollars and saving and preventing identiy theft. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Sailing Through the Mortgage Process</title>
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      <title>Keeping a Safe Harbor: Maintaining &amp; Protecting Your Home</title>
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      <title>Biomass Energy Resources in Louisiana</title>
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      <title>Strategies for Successful Retirement</title>
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      <title>Power Pay</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:12:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>2010 Projected Costs and Returns - Cotton, Soybeans, Grain Sorghum and Wheat, Louisiana</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:44:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Myths And Realities About FICO Scores Examined</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:00:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Christmas is Coming</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:32:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Planning ahead can save you money and reduce holiday stress for everyone. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>GNye@agcenter.lsu.edu (GNye)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Children in the Middle Series:  Separating Your Finances</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:15:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Children in the Middle Series:  Separating Your Finances</title>
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      <title>Talking to Your Kids About Money</title>
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      <title>Stretching Food Dollars</title>
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      <title>Bill-paying Responsibility Looms For Teens Leaving The Nest</title>
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      <dc:creator>JTucker@agcenter.lsu.edu (Jeanette A. Tucker)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Protecting Your Investment</title>
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      <title>Protect Identity Theft During The Holidays</title>
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      <title>Financial Basics: Practical Steps to Building Wealth</title>
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      <title>What Color Is Your Money?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report presents estimates of projected costs of producing crawfish in Louisiana for the 2008 season. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>2007 Louisiana Projected Beef Cattle, Dairy and Forage Crop Production Costs</title>
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      <title>Stretching Your Food Dollar</title>
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      <title>Live Well on a Shoestring Budget:  Control Spending</title>
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      <title>The Effect of Federal Rate Cuts on Consumers</title>
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      <title>Investment Options</title>
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      <title>Principles of Investing</title>
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      <title>Parish Economic Profiles, 2002-2007</title>
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      <title>Louisiana farmers face Sept. 16 deadline for insurance waiver for disaster assistance</title>
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      <title>Nonruminent Farm Animals: A Major Contributer to Louisiana's Economy</title>
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      <title>Family Economist Offers Tips to Teens Leaving the Nest</title>
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