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The following describes an innovation. Region: Southern |
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Main contact information for this innovation: Randy Price Main contact job title / position: Assistant Professor Extension Main contact number: 318-473-6520 Main contact email address: rprice@agcenter.lsu.edu |
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Innovation name: UAS for Agriculture Brief description of innovation as provided in online survey: Opportunities to use unmanned aerial systems for improvement of Louisiana Farming Operations |
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Notes from phone interview: One's in Ag Engineering with unmanned drones that we're using to trying to begin to start being able to document crop damage, crop potential, ewe potential. We're using drones. |
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The following describes an innovation. Region: Southern |
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Main contact information for this innovation: Rodrigo Diaz Main contact job title / position: Assistant Professon Main contact number: 225-578-1634 Main contact email address: rdiaz@agcenter.lsu.edu |
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Innovation name: invasive species weed management Brief description of innovation as provided in online survey: management of giant salvania with biological control insects |
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Notes from phone interview: One of them is using a natural vector, an insect to control an invasive wheat species that is virtually leading some of our lakes in North Louisiana uninhabitable. It's taking over that much. We've been doing some work with the insect that is a natural predator to that invasive wheat species. |
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Main contact information for this innovation: Monica Stewart Main contact job title / position: Extension Agent Main contact number: 318-428-3571 Main contact email address: mstweart@agcenter.lsu.edu |
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Innovation name: Healthy Communities Brief description of innovation as provided in online survey: Increased physical activity and reduce obesity through nutrition utilizing a community approach |
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Notes from phone interview: The Healthy Family, the obesity program is a collaboration between our Pennington Biomedical Research Center here in Baton Rouge and LSU and the Southern Ag Center. It's about involving the community to make change, rather than just the adult or the child, or the family. It's the whole community we're focusing on to make changes in their eating and well being physical activity. |
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The following describes an innovation. Region: Southern |
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Main contact information for this innovation: Ashley Mullens Main contact job title / position: Extension Associate Main contact number: 225-578-7415 Main contact email address: awmullens@agcenter.lsu.edu |
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Innovation name: Youth Wetlands Education Program Brief description of innovation as provided in online survey: Educate youth and adults on coastal wetlands issues through school enrichment program and wetlands planting |
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Notes from phone interview: The 4-H Program that we put there and the Youth Wetlands program that we do. We reach 100,000 kids each year with at least six to 10 hours of instruction in school enrichment about the importance of coastal wetlands and how to preserve them. How we can do plantings to enrich the coastal wetlands. We lose about a football field worth of wetlands every two hours in Louisiana. Very important that young people understand the urgency we have with restoring those wetlands. It depends. The Youth Wetlands program, the 4-H program, is a half a million dollar grant from our Department of Natural Resources. They have a branch of their department that is tasked with youth education. They don't have a delivery mode. We have a 4-H agent in every parish so we have a delivery mode to get it out to every parish in Louisiana. |
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The following describes an innovation. Region: Southern |
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Main contact information for this innovation: Kenny Sharpe Main contact job title / position: County Extension Agent Main contact number: 225-686-3020 Main contact email address: ksharpe@agcenter.lsu.edu |
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Innovation name: Master Cattleman Brief description of innovation as provided in online survey: Livestock producer education for Best Management Practices |
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Notes from phone interview: The last one we put is a Best Management Practices for our cattle producers, which is the largest animal production in Louisiana. What we try to teach there is best management practices concerning fertilization reducing runoff, those types of things that are going to make our beef cattle producers good stewards of the environment. |