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| Producers listen to a speaker during the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Livestock and Health Management Workshop, which was held at SARDI on April 22, 2017. |
Baton
Rouge, La. – The Federation of
Southern Cooperatives hold their Livestock and Health Management Workshop at
the Sustainable Agriculture Rural Development Institute (SARDI) on Saturday,
April 22 in Opelousas, La.
Antonio Harris, director of SARDI, offered greetings to the nearly
35 producers in attendance for the workshop.
The event’s topics of
discussion included:
·
Emergency Preparedness and Response
·
On – Farm Biosecurity Issues
·
Traceability of Livestock Diseases
·
Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land
Assistance Fund Program and Services
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives is a non-profit
organization whose mission includes striving
toward the development of self-supporting communities with programs that
increase income and enhance other opportunities. The cooperative also strives
to assist in land retention and development, especially for African Americans,
but essentially for all family farmers.
SARDI
is a satellite campus of the SU Ag Center housed in Opelousas, La. The
Institute focuses on improving the socioeconomic well-being of citizens in
rural communities within a ten-parish region of St. Landry, Acadia, Allen,
Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Pointe Coupee, St. Martin, and
Vermillion Parishes.
The
SU Ag Center and College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences together
are called the Southern University Agricultural Land-Grant Campus.
For
additional information about SARDI or to receive information about its programs
and services, call 337-943-2410.
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