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The President’s Column: A weekly feature provided by your parish Farm Bureau
Like a lot of farmers I used to get a lot of publications about the profession in my mailbox. Now they arrive in my inbox. While I can’t read everything that shows up in email form, I did see a ...
Apr 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President’s Column: A weekly feature provided by your parish Farm Bureau
A recent report on world agricultural supply and demand estimates is creating an interesting new crop market dynamic, according to economic analysis from the American Farm Bureau Federation. The ...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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“Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics” by Loretta Lynn, with a preface by Elvis Costello c.2012, Knopf $29.95 / $32.00 Canada 240 pages
The Bookworm Sez: ‘Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics’
It was a wonderful trip – and you never went anywhere. All you had to do was hear that song and you saw yourself dancing with your sweetheart. Five opening notes and you were in your first ne...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Snap Into Fitness: Burners and Boosters
You walk and you walk. You could walk across the state of Louisiana and still not lose that extra 10 pounds -- at least, that's how it seems. If you've hit a plateau in your weight-loss progr...
Apr 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President’s Column: A weekly feature provided by your parish Farm Bureau
On Sunday, April 1 the CBS news magazine ‘60 Minutes” aired a story about sugar entitled: “Is sugar toxic?” Reported by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the 14-minute story called American’s consumption of pr...
Apr 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President’s Column: A weekly feature provided by your parish Farm Bureau
While farm bills only come around once every five years it seems like farmers fight for their funding around the clock. This is the year lawmakers in Washington craft a new farm bill, and whether...
Mar 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Snap Spotlight: Chris Rosa
“There is NO special pill you can take at night that will get rid of the pounds for you. When I tell people how I lost 45 pounds, some say “that is too much work, I can’t do that.” I get mad when I...
Mar 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Get It Growing:Dealing with scale insects
of the more common groups of insects that attack plants. You may find them feeding on trees, shrubs and even indoor plants. When they first hatch out of their eggs, scale insects are mobile. A...
Mar 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President’s Column: A weekly feature provided by your parish Farm Bureau
Any farmer, or 4-H’er for that matter, will tell you that without the resources of the LSU AgCenter, ruralLouisiana and its economy would be a less productive, less profitable place. For 125 year...
Mar 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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MARCH 27 IS AMERICAN DIABETES ALERT DAY
Tuesday, March 27, is American Diabetes Alert Day, an annual event sponsored by the American Diabetes Association to alert Americans of their risk of developing diabetes. Diabetes is a serious ...
Mar 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President’s Column: A weekly feature provided by your parish Farm Bureau
With the Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature kicking off this week it got me thinking about how effective Farm Bureau has been over the years in looking out for the interests of the s...
Mar 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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“Sophie: The Incredible True Story of the Castaway Dog” by Emma Pearse c.2012, Da Capo Lifelong Books $25.00 / $29.00 Canada 320 pages
The Bookworm Sez: ‘Sophie’
Once upon a time, you had living room furniture that wasn’t covered in fur. It wasn’t scuffed by paw prints or mashed down from repeated turn-before-laying-down rotations. Before your cou...
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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