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Peggy Martin roses at Peggy Martin’s house. Photo provided by Pierre Bouchee and Jan Pesses, of the St. Tammany Parish Master Gardeners Association

Peggy Martin roses at Peggy Martin’s house. Photo provided by Pierre Bouchee and Jan Pesses, of the St. Tammany Parish Master Gardeners Association

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Peggy Martin rose named spring 2023 Louisiana Super Plant

Heather Kirk-Ballard / LSU AgCenter horticulturist
Friday, March 3, 2023
The LSU AgCenter is proud to announce its first Louisiana Super Plant selection for 2023, and it is none other than the Peggy Martin rose. Also known as the Katrina rose, most Louisiana residents know this rambling rose.
Photo 1: A new Louisiana Civil Rights Trail marker is unveiled on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus recognizing the Pillars of Progress. Pictured left to right are Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory, Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, State Senator Gerald Boudreaux, Joyce Constantine Henson (sister of Clara Dell Constantine), Lafayette Travel President & CEO Ben Berthelot, and University of Louisiana at Lafayette President Dr. Joseph Savoie. (Photo credit: Office of Lieutenant Governor

Photo 1: A new Louisiana Civil Rights Trail marker is unveiled on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus recognizing the Pillars of Progress. Pictured left to right are Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory, Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, State Senator Gerald Boudreaux, Joyce Constantine Henson (sister of Clara Dell Constantine), Lafayette Travel President & CEO Ben Berthelot, and University of Louisiana at Lafayette President Dr. Joseph Savoie. (Photo credit: Office of Lieutenant Governor

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Civil Rights Trail marker notes SLI integration

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, March 3, 2023
LAFAYETTE — Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, the Louisiana Office of Tourism and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette unveiled the ninth marker along the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail at the Pillars of Progress on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Dead roseau cane stems. (Photo by Rodrigo Diaz/LSU AgCenter)

Dead roseau cane stems. (Photo by Rodrigo Diaz/LSU AgCenter)

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Team effort yields new clues about roseau cane decline

Olivia McClure / omcclure@agcenter.lsu.edu
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
For six and a half years, LSU AgCenter scientists and their counterparts at other agencies have been searching for clues as to why large swaths of roseau cane are dying along Louisiana’s coast — and how to restore these areas to prevent further land loss.

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Program provides free books young readers

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Louisiana, in collaboration with Scholastic, announced Reading Enrichment and Academic Deliverables (READ), a new state-funded book and literacy program designed to help support Louisiana pre-K4 through 5th grade students who are not yet reading on grade level.
Alena Allen

Alena Allen

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LSU Law Center dean named

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
LSU has named Alena Allen dean of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Allen, a Louisiana native, is currently deputy director for the Association of American Law Schools and professor of law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Cover crops are used to renew soil health by adding organic matter back to the soil to improve the overall soil structure. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

Cover crops are used to renew soil health by adding organic matter back to the soil to improve the overall soil structure. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

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Are cover crops and crop rotation beneficial for home gardeners?

Heather Kirk-Ballard / LSU AgCenter horticulturist
Friday, February 24, 2023
This week, the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference in Baton Rouge, and I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and nursery crops) producers. Cover cropping was once a common practice in agricultural history.

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Did Coolidge eat his Rice-O-La?

Jim Bradshaw
Friday, February 24, 2023
When planter, politician and entrepreneur Henri Gueydan began to manufacture his Rice-O-La breakfast cereal in 1923, he also launched an advertising campaign that could have been the inspiration for the flamboyant Hadacol promotions decades later. The campaign might have been anticipated.
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Friday unveiled his last state budget proposal to a joint legislative committee. (Photo by Molly Ryan//LSU Manship School News Service)

Gov. John Bel Edwards on Friday unveiled his last state budget proposal to a joint legislative committee. (Photo by Molly Ryan//LSU Manship School News Service)

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Edwards proposes budget with teacher pay raise

Molly Ryan and Claire Sullivan / LSU Manship School News Service
Friday, February 17, 2023
Gov. John Bel Edwards proposed a budget Friday that includes a $2,000 pay raise for K-12 teachers that could climb to $3,000 if more money becomes available. He also called for a $1,000 pay raise for support workers at schools. Those basic raises would cost the state about $200 million each year.
Farmers markets help support communities and Black farmers.

Farmers markets help support communities and Black farmers.

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Celebrating Black History Month in the garden

Heather Kirk-Ballard / LSU AgCenter horticulturist
Friday, February 17, 2023
For nearly 50 years, Black History Month has been celebrated in the U.S. The story took root when Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-trained historian, and minister Jesse Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1926.