Monthly newsletter highlighting Franklin Parish 4-H events and news.

Louisianians take pride in the appearance of their lawns and landscapes. Weeds, however, can detract from that appearance and frustrate homeowners. Information on adaptation, light, soils and mulch can be found in this publication.

A quarterly newsletter from the LSU AgCenter's Family and Consumer Sciences Division.

Brief descriptions of Character Counts!, Character Critters and Parenting programs like Children in the Middle.

This guide includes helpful information on herbicides and weed control with detailed suggestions for aquatics, commercial nursery stock, field crops, forestry, fruit crops, home gardens, lawns and many other Louisiana crops. It includes information on different types of herbicide registrations, as well as information on herbicide labels and restricted uses. Also included are sprayer calibration techniques, suggestions for reducing herbicide drift and a guide to proper spray tip selection.

Instructions on obtaining a private applicator's pesticide license to purchase restricted use pesticides for spraying crops, pastures, fruits, nuts, home gardens, vegetables, ornamentals and lawns.

Family and Consumer Sciences provides various health and nutrition programs for improving the lives of Louisiana citizens.

The quarterly reports highlight educational programs conducted by our parish staff. They are distributed to members of the local school board, police jury, Farm Bureau and other stakeholders to keep them updated on our accomplishments.

Brief description of Franklin Parish 4-H.

Franklin Parish 4-H'ers attend Summer Camp at Camp Grant Walker

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

One can take several simple steps to control their environment in order to incresase their wealth.

Franklin Parish eighth graders experienced life in the real world through a program offered by LSU AgCenter.

Provides general information describing Franklin Parish and related links of interest.

2008 Northeast District Horse Show

The Farm Record Book is designed to provide a farmer with an organized system for recording expenses, income, land use and treatment, social security and income tax information. Printed copy available for $10 plus tax.

Living on Your Income When Prices Rise

Provides list of members and links to meeting minutes for the Agriculture & Natural Resources (ANR) Advisory Leadership Council.

Provides list of members and links to meeting minutes for the Animal Science Advisory Leadership Council.

Two Franklin parish 4-H'ers were awarded the Scott Tractor Scholarship Award.

Eight Franklin Parish 4-H'ers attend 4-H University on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge.

4-H'ers visit the State Capital in Baton Rouge

On-farm crop demonstrations are used to show how LSU AgCenter recommendations perform on producers farms.

Provides list of members and links to meeting minutes for the FCS Advisory Leadership Council.

Article discribing the life cycle of a bagworm, the damage it can cause and control options.

LSU AgCenter holds Super Sitter training

This 2008 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 using beneficial insects to control pest populations. A section on organic gardening also is included.

Celebration of Louisiana 4-H Centennial

Jr. Leaders enjoy a trip to Blue Bayou Water Park and Dixie Landin' Amusement Park

Entries and winners in 4-H pet show

New inductees to 4-H Hall of Fame

Northeast Louisiana District Livestock Show and Commodity Cookery

List of members and links to meeting minutes for the Franklin Parish Overall Advisory Leadership Council.

Provides list of members and links to meeting minutes for the 4-H Advisory Leadership Council.

This guide for 2008 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.

The article describes leaf galls or Exobasidium fungal disease including a picture of infected azalea leaves.

This article gives a brief description of the Forest Tent Caterpillar including three pictures.

Franklin Parish 5-year summary of row crop acreage and yield.

Use this guide to plant a successful vegetable garden. The information has been developed after considerable research and practical experience.

The Market Outlook Reports give a fundamental analysis of the soybean and feed grains (corn and grain sorghum) markets.

Learning to identify trees can be fun. It is easy to identify the common trees of Louisiana with this guide. Long words have been left out, and pictures are used to identify the leaves instead of written descriptions.

Louisiana Sweet Potato News aims to update and inform all those associated with or interested in Louisiana sweet potatoes. Among the topics featured in this newsletter are such items as crop profiles, information related to various aspects of sweet potato production, the latest details on insect, weed and disease management, and current industry news and events.

Louisiana Wildlife News is a bi-monthly 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.