(Distributed 03/31/04) Louisiana is called the "Sportsman’s Paradise," and the LSU AgCenter’s 4-H program has found ways to teach the state’s youth valuable skills – particularly when hunting is in vogue and sleeping in a tent is hip.

(Distributed 03/31/04) Richard Davis, human resource manager for the Pilgrim’s Pride poultry producing plant here, hopes an LSU AgCenter program will teach his staff skills that will cut down employee turnover at the plant.

(Distributed 03/31/04) Many students at Robinson Elementary School in Monroe are working in a garden for the first time.

(Distributed 03/25/04) They're planting by land and by air. Rice planting in South Louisiana is in full swing, and farmers say they are excited about the better price prospects they're seeing this growing season. Experts say the number of acres planted to rice in the state could be up 10 percent to 15 percent from last year.

(Distributed 03/04/04) Two LSU AgCenter faculty members have been elected to key leadership positions in the World Aquaculture Society.

(Distributed 03/04/04) Two faculty members LSU AgCenter’s Department of Entomology and three students from the LSU department were among the top winners at a recent southern regional conference of the Entomological Society of America held in Charleston, S.C.

(Distributed 03/04/04) Greenhouse tomato growers looking for alternative crops to grow when they don’t have tomatoes in their greenhouses could consider poinsettias, according to LSU AgCenter experts and growers.

(Distributed 03/04/04) A former Louisiana 4-H’er with an extensive background in communications has been appointed executive director of the Louisiana 4-H Foundation.

(Distributed 03/04/04) Representatives of a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded project in Ukraine are meeting in Baton Rouge this week (March 2-4) for review and planning sessions.

(Distributed 03/04/04) An effort to remove abandoned crab traps from the state’s waters already is seeing success – in its first outing.