A monthly newsletter with broiler production and poultry-related news for commercial poultry growers and the general public.

Louisiana Center for Rural Initiatives is a development initiative of the LSU AgCenter and Southern University Ag Center.

On May 14, 2008, the LSU AgCenter hosted the Carbon Credit Conference in Alexandria to provide landowners and natural resource professionals with an understanding of the emerging carbon trading market. Presentations attached provided information on the environmental rationale behind the development of a carbon cap-and-trade market and how it works, which forest and agricultural management activities can produce carbon credits for sale, and potential changes ahead for carbon trading.

Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors of the 2008 Hill Farm Field Day. Attached list.

Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station research is conducted through approved projects that meet specific criteria. Each project is assigned a CRIS (Current Research Information System) number that is used to track the progress of the research and to report the project status to the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station and USDA. CRIS project reports from all states are available from the on-line archives in Washington, D.C. at http://cwf.uvm.edu/cris.

View the 2008 Hill Farm Research Station Field Day Summaries for Beef, Poultry, Forestry, Forage and Water Quality.

Photo's from Hill Farm research Station Field Day - including speakers, tours of poultry, beef cattle, water quality, foresty, forage, and other photos.

(Radio News 03/30/09) Tod Hibbard figures he has grown nearly 10 million chickens in the 16 years he has been a poultry producer. Hibbard has eight chicken houses on rolling land in Jackson Parish. He said business was good initially but has had ups and downs over the years. (Runtime: 60 seconds)

(TV News 03/30/09) Louisiana’s poultry industry suffered a blow when Pilgrim’s Pride announced plans to close it’s northeast Louisiana processing facility. The state is working on a deal to ensure the facility continues operating. LSU AgCenter correspondent Tobie Blanchard talked with a grower who is raising his last flock of birds for Pilgrim’s Pride. (Runtime: 1 minute, 16 seconds)

(TV News 03/09/09) Poverty is prevalent in Northeast Louisiana, but an LSU AgCenter entity is committed to helping people in rural areas overcome poverty and other barriers to economic prosperity. (Runtime: 1 minute, 34 seconds)