St. Landry Parish will be offering an outdoor skills program that has been named the St. Landry Parish Shooting Sports Club. All instructors in the program will be certified by the state committee.

The St. Landry Parish 4-H Junior Leader Club has decided to participate in the Operation Military Kids program for their 2011-2012 service-learning project.

The St. Landry Parish Junior Leader Club is having a club fund-raiser by selling holiday poinsettias.

The St. Landry 4-H Junior Leader Chatter is a newsletter to inform current Junior Leader members about upcoming events and activities.

Come out and support the St. Landry Parish Youth Program's "4-H Promotion Project Day" on Oct. 1, 2011, sponsored by Tractor Supply Co.

A new rabbit show will be held at the Parish Livestock Show which will be held Jan. 20-21, 2011, at the Ag Arena. Order broiler chicks to be ready for exhibition at the parish livestock show.

The 4-H Calendar highlights the contests, events and activities that 4-H members can participate and compete.

With the unseasonably warm temperatures and reasonably favorable weather, harvest time has arrived in Acadiana. Every commodity crop grown in Louisiana is grown in St. Landry Parish, making St. Landry Parish perhaps the most diversified crop production area of the entire state.

4-H University was held the week of June 21-24, 2011 at LSU in Baton Rouge. Youth were able to interview for state boards, compete in contests to win trips and awards and participate in Clover College.

St. Landry Parish 4-H held its first 4-H Shooting Sports Competition on June 2, 2011, at the Kops & Kids Camp in Washington, La.