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LSU AgCenter soybean specialist Ron Levy talks about the benefits of planting soybeans early during the LSU AgCenter Dean Lee Research Station field day on July 14. Photo by Bruce Schultz

La. farmers seeing few problems in fields this year

Thu, 07/21/2016 - 5:00pm Harlan Kirgan

Row crop farmers and consultants attending the LSU AgCenter Dean Lee Research Station field day on July 14 heard about research to help them improve their operations and increase profits.

St. Landry Parish farmer Charlie Fontenot explains an experimental rice crop grown on a 40-acre field with limited irrigation during an LSU AgCenter field day held on his farm on July 6. Fontenot said the crop used 48 percent less water than an adjacent field that was conventionally flooded. (Photo by Bruce Schultz)

St Landry Parish field day provides plethora of information

Mon, 07/11/2016 - 7:27am Harlan Kirgan

An LSU AgCenter field day held on July 6 at the Charlie Fontenot farm in St. Landry Parish offered a smorgasbord of information on a variety of crops and ways to grow them.

Caleb Cart of Eunice stands in a rice field with his wife Katie and children Owen, Sloane and Hallee. Cart began farming for a living in 2005. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)

Cart: First generation farmer

Thu, 05/28/2015 - 5:22am Harlan Kirgan

Many of those who enter the state’s farming industry are born into the business, but several first generation farmers are also breaking into the profession in St. Landry Parish.

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