The Louisiana Soybean and Grain Research and Promotion Board focuses your checkoff dollars on projects that address Louisiana’s most important production and marketing issues.
The board administers both the national soybean checkoff and Louisiana’s wheat and corn checkoff. In addition, although the state checkoff on grain sorghum was suspended this year because of the new national checkoff, the board will be working with the new national grain sorghum checkoff program to obtain funds for research specific to Louisiana’s needs.
Your checkoff dollars make it possible to fund continuing research that addresses production problems faced in Louisiana. This report describes some of the activities funded by your checkoff dollars. A lot of effort is focused on addressing diseases, insects and other agronomic issues that most adversely affect yields. Specific projects are addressing diseases in soybeans, aflatoxin in corn, breeding new varieties of wheat and soybeans, improving the agronomic practices used in Louisiana and much more.
Although research funding is the major focus of the board, market development activities also are funded with the United Soybean Board, National Corn Growers Association, U.S. Grains Council and the National Grain Sorghum Producers Association. At the national level, investments in foreign market development projects and new uses are paying off. There is strong demand from both traditional export and domestic markets while the relatively new market for renewable fuels continues to grow and has become an important market for growers, as well as a reliable source of fuel for our country.
Your checkoff dollars make these and many more efforts possible. On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank you for your support of this program.
Sincerely,
Raymond Schexnayder, Chairman
Louisiana Soybean and Grain Research and Promotion Board
Board Members
Raymond S. Schexnayder Jr., Chairman
7614 Cooks Landing
Ventress, LA 70783
Home: (225) 638-7770
Cell: (225) 718-4583
Email: lilrayschex@yahoo.com
J.K. Bordelon,
Vice Chairman
2528 Highway 451
Moreauville, LA 71355
Home: (318) 985-2451
Cell: (318) 359-2222
Email: thefarm@cebridge.net
Charles J. Cannatella,
Secretary-Treasurer
13803 Highway 105
Melville, LA 71353
Home: (337) 623-5200
Cell: (337) 207-4730
Email: denisecannatella@hotmail.com
Leo Franchebois
361 Sugar Mill Road
Opelousas, LA 70570
Home: (337) 948-4365
Cell: (337) 331-3341
Email: j_franchebois@yahoo.com
Carlos Polotzola
421 Atkin Bayou Road
Melville, LA 71353
Home: (337) 566-3754
Cell: (337) 789-7298
Email: cdpolotzola@aol.com
Donald H. Marshall
4713 Highway 568
Ferriday, LA 71334-4430
Home: (318) 757-8005
Cell: (318) 481-1739
Jerry D. Hunter
5457 Highway 17
Delhi, LA 71232
Home: (318) 878-5597
Cell: (318) 557-6828
Email: hunterjerryd@bellsouth.net
Joey Olivier
2056 Highway 31
Arnaudville, LA 70512
Home: (337) 879-2827
Cell: (337) 945-3606
Email: joeyolivier@aol.com
Darrell J. Vandeven
174 Vandeven Road
St. Joseph, LA 71366
Home: (318) 766-4646
Cell: (318) 282-5780
Email: dvan@nexussystems.net
Robert Thevis
661 Highway 1183
Simmesport, LA 71369
Home: (318) 941-2515
Cell: (318) 282-5780
Email: rthevis@kricket.net
Kyle L. McCann,
Corresponding Secretary
P.O. Box 95004
Baton Rouge, LA 70895-9004
Office: (225) 922-6209
Cell: (225) 405-5182
Email: kylem@lfbf.org
(This article was published in the 2008 edition of the Louisiana Soybean & Grain Research & Promotion Board Report.)