Rice farmers want to keep it the way it is. An overwhelming amount of farmers voted to keep paying a nickel for every 100 pounds of rice for research, and 3 cents per 100 pounds for promotion.
Testing on chimpanzees at an Acadiana research center could come to a halt if a new bill makes its way through Congress. The bill would phase out over three years invasive research on chimps and other primates.
Researchers at Universities in Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Mississippi will be getting over $100 million to study BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University is closing three of its Agricultural Center research stations in the face of state budget cuts.