(Distributed 06/01/07) The LSU AgCenter will hold Hurricane Resistance Days at its LaHouse model home site June 14-17.

(For Release On Or After 06/01/07) June marks the beginning of hurricane season, and it’s important to understand powerful hurricanes can affect the entire state – not just the southern portions. As you make your plans, remember there are things that need to be done to prepare a landscape for the possibility of storm and things to do when a storm threatens.

(Distributed 05/10/07) Louisiana’s forest product sectors have remained vigorous despite the lingering effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to Dr. Matthew Fannin, an agricultural economist with the LSU AgCenter. "While value-added food and fiber sectors, such as the food product manufacturing sector, were adversely affected by the hurricanes, forest product sectors were only minimally affected" Fannin said.

(Distributed 05/09/07) Work by the LSU AgCenter was instrumental in a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that has compensated sugarcane producers with $40 million for losses caused by hurricanes Rita and Katrina. LSU AgCenter sugarcane expert Dr. Ben Legendre said payments were recently distributed, and he said several individuals in the AgCenter and other agencies worked to provide information that helped farmers.

(Distributed 05/03/07) A great deal of attention has been focused on the immediate and lingering effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on agricultural commodities, but the hurricanes also affected processors and marketers of those products. According to Dr. Matthew Fannin, agricultural economist with the LSU AgCenter, the total value-added created by the overall food and fiber system in Louisiana declined just over 3.5 percent during the time frame of the storms