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Podcast: It's Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch
Episode: Horticulture Agriculture And Just Plain Culture
Description: If you live in the big cities of Louisiana, like Baton Rouge or New Orleans, you might not realize just how rural much of Louisiana actually is. And how important agriculture is to the state’s economy: it's the state’s 5th largest sector behind oil, natural gas, commercial fishing and chemicals. A lot of research around agriculture - and it’s sister discipline, horticulture – goes on right here in Baton Rouge, where we also have some micro organic farms in the middle of the city! Heather Kirk Ballard is Assistant Professor of Consumer Horticulture in the Sc...