Louisiana local county extension offices

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Louisiana local county extension offices

Your local Louisiana county extension agent from the Cooperative Extension office can help answer your garden and farming questions and they're free! Just click on the area below closest to you!  The Cooperative Extension System is a nationwide, non-credit educational network. These offices are staffed by one or more experts who provide useful, practical, and research-based information to agricultural producers, small business owners, youth, consumers, and others in rural areas and communities of all sizes.

Publications

• Agritourism -- a new agricultural business enterprise

  Agriculture and tourism together present unique opportunities for farmers to diversify and expand their operations. This brochure describes the steps in developing an agritourism business venture. (PDF format only)

• Agritourism Best Management Practices and Plan of Operation

  Best management practices are suggested practices that an agritourism professional can use to minimize risks in an agirtourism enterprise.These best management practices can be used in the plan of operation under "suggestions to minimize risks."

• Agritourism Best Management Practices and Plan of Operation

  This publication contains the definition for the plan of operation and suggests best management practices for agritourism professionals to use to minimize their risks in order to comply with La R.S. 9:2795.5, the limited liability agritourism law passed by the Louisiana Legislature in 2008. (PDF format only)

• Steps to Growing a Successful School Garden

  The primary goal of a school garden is to allow the students to grow plants from start to finish.

• Louisiana Vegetable Planting Guide

  A brief guide on how and when to grow vegetables for small scale gardeners.

Other Gardening and Agriculture Topics

• Agritourism
• Animal Nutrition
• Animal Reproduction
• Beef
• Best Management Practices
• Commercial Fruits and Vegetables
• Conservation
• Cotton
• Dairy
• Data and Statistics
• Farm Management
• Farm Equipment and Structures
• Louisiana Field Crops IPM
• Goats
• Grain Crops
• Horses
• Insect and Disease Control
• Pasture and Forage Crops
• Pecans
• Poultry
• Rabbits
• Rice
• Soil Fertility
• Soybeans
• Sugarcane
• Swine
• Technology
• Urban Agriculture
• Weed Control