COVID vaccine sites set
Tue, 04/20/2021 - 2:29pm
A number of Community Vaccination Events have been planned in and around Acadia Parish during the coming days.
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Book signings set in Crowley
Tue, 04/20/2021 - 2:27pm
Gaylon White, author of The Best Little Baseball Town in the World: The Crowley Millers and Minor League Baseball in the 1950s, will autograph copies on the book at events at the Rice Palace Restau
Nan Wallis of Wetlands Sake holds a handful of rice. The short-grain rice variety, Pirogue, was developed in 2003 at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station by now-retired rice breeder Steve Linscombe. (Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter)
AgCenter rice main ingredient in new Louisiana-brewed sake
Tue, 04/20/2021 - 12:13pm
Short-grain rice developed by the LSU AgCenter has been planted for a New Orleans company to make sake, a traditional Japanese beverage that is becoming more popular in the U.S.
Sheriff releases annual report
Tue, 04/20/2021 - 12:10pm
Nearly $1.5 million of illegal narcotics and more than 150 illegal weapons were seized by deputies of the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office during the past year.
Student Hunter Lepretre of Gueydan, third from right, has been chosen for a research internship at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station. The paid internship was established by the Charles and Rose Broussard family. Shown with him are Alan Broussard, far right; Yvonne Broussard Simon, second from right; Richard Broussard, third from left; Hal Broussard, second from left and Kurt Guidry, director of the LSU AgCenter’s Southwest Region. (Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter)
McNeese student named intern at Rice Research Station
Mon, 04/19/2021 - 10:53am
Hunter Lepretre, a junior at McNeese State University, has been chosen as the first student selected for a research internship with the LSU AgCenter through an endowment established by the family o