This Week in Louisiana Agriculture
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Before grilling machines, get-rich-quick real estate programs, and swimsuit models hawking weight loss gadgets, early morning television in Louisiana was dominated by farm programming.
“This Week In Louisiana Agriculture,” created by former Louisiana Farm Bureau Public Relations Director and TWILA host Regnal Wallace, is one of the longest-running television programs produced in Louisiana. The show can be watched across five local broadcast stations, three cable affiliates, a webcast, and right here on RFD-TV. read more
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Louisiana had an unprecedented number of 100-degree days this summer, and the long stretch of heat is taking a toll on ranchers across the state. Both hay quantities and quality are down right now, which could cause further weight loss for cattle in the winter.
The site somewhere in Vernon Parish is so old that agriculture was in a primitive form. Many of the tools and artifacts discovered at the secret site, which researchers estimate date back 12,000 years, were used in the preparation of food.
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