Louisiana Agritourism: FREE Seminar on Mobile, Tablet and Social Media Technology

Monday, February 18, 2013

FREE Seminar on Mobile, Tablet and Social Media Technology

Connect My Louisiana Summit

March 6, 2013

The workshop is FREE, but REGISTRATION required; click here to register.

West Monroe Convention Center

901 Ridge Avenue

West Monroe, LA 71291

9:30 am

Registration

10:00 am

Welcome – Dr. Tara Smith, LSU AgCenter

Courtney Hornsby, West Monroe West Ouachita Chamber

10:15 am

John Jones, - Vice President of Public Policy and

Federal Legisla ve Affairs, CenturyLink

10:45 am

Overview of the Louisiana Broadband Ini a ve- David Moore,

Louisiana Division of Administra*on

11:15 am

Overview of Connect My Louisiana – Bruce Garner, LSU AgCenter

11:30 am

Fiber to the Home Steven Blaskowski, Calix

12:00 am

Connecti vity in Rural Areas– Paul Vinigelo, Nexus Technology

12:30 pm

Lunch (Provided)

1:00 pm

Breakout Sessions (choose one session)

Ouachita Meeting Room:

Mobile Connec tivity

Trenton Meeting Room:

Introduc tion to Tablets

1:45 pm

Break

2:00 pm

Breakout Sessions (choose one session)

Ouachita

Meeting Room: Building an Online Presence

Trenton Meeting Room:

Using Social Media for Business

and Personal Life

2:45 pm

Closing Remarks

Marc

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Agritourism Law Limits Liability

In 2008, the Louisiana Legislature expanded the limitation of liability found in La R.S. 9:2795 et seq to include certain agritourism activities. The legislation authored by Representative Andy Anders and Senators Francis Thompson and Mike Walsworth provides that the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Foresty (LDAF) will develop a set of rules and regulations and that the LSU AgCenter will define a “plan of operation” for an agritourism venture and review those plans.

More about this law can be found on the LSU AgCenter Web site: www.lsuagcenter.com/agritourism

2012 Agriculture Census Shows Increase in Farming

WASHINGTON, May 2, 2014 –There are now 3.2 million farmers operating 2.1 million farms on 914.5 million acres of farmland across the United States, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“Once every five years, farmers, ranchers and growers have the unique opportunity to let the world know how U.S. agriculture is changing, what is staying the same, what’s working and what we can do differently,” said Dr. Cynthia Clark, the retiring head of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, which administered the survey.

Eighty-seven percent of all U.S. farms are operated by families or individuals.
Principal operators were on average 58.3 years old and were predominantly male; second operators were slightly younger and most likely to be female; and third operators were younger still.
In Louisiana agritourism grew from 170 farms in 2007 to 361 farms in 2012.
In Louisiana onfarm agritourism sales jumped from $2,486 to $8,996 in 2012.
In Louisiana the definition of agritourism is broader than the definition in the census; meaning that numbers are greater.