Home > Crops & Livestock > Multimedia > Video > A century of rice research [Image: Rice Research Station Video] For 100 years, the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station has been conducting research and developing new rice varieties that benefit the rice industry in Louisiana as well as other states. This video takes you through history and research of the Rice Research Station. The Sweet Truth about Sweet Potato Production in Louisiana [Image: Sweet Potatoes] How do sweet potatoes get from the field to your table? This video explains the amazing multi-step, labor intensive process to producing sweet potatoes. It's your chance to learn the "sweet truth" about sweet potato production in Louisiana. Fun With Chickens - Handling Poultry [Image: Handling Poultry] The LSU AgCenter 4-H and FFA Junior Showmanship show gives members a chance to show their broilers. This guide shows how to handle your broiler for exhibition showmanship. Fun With Chickens - Broiler Showmanship [Image: Broiler Showmanship] The LSU AgCenter 4-H and FFA Junior Showmanship show gives members a chance to show their broilers. This guide shows how to handle your broiler for exhibition showmanship.  more articles... Fun With Chickens - Exhibition Showmanship [Image: Exhibition Showmanship Video] 4-H and FFA members share their experiences raising and showing poultry at the LSU AgCenter Junior Showmanship Show. Hurricanes devastate sweet potato crop [Image: Sweet Potatoes] (TV News 10/06/08) There was no shortage of rain across Louisiana’s sweet potato-growing regions before the hurricanes hit in September. Then, as LSU AgCenter correspondent Tobie Blanchard reports, Gustav and Ike soaked the already saturated fields and devastated the state's sweet potato industry. (Runtime: 1 minute, 30 seconds) Heavy rain threatens soybean harvest [Image: Soybean Harvest] (TV News 09/08/08) Many soybean growers are trying to get into their fields to harvest their crops, but rain is slowing them down. LSU AgCenter correspondent Tobie Blanchard spoke with the AgCenter’s newly-appointed soybean specialist about the 2008 crop. (Runtime: 1 minute, 30 seconds) Rice growers find good news in the fields [Image: Rice Harvest] (TV News 09/01/08) After years of low prices, the situation for rice farmers is looking up this year. Growers across the state are harvesting their crops and finding good news in the fields. LSU AgCenter correspondent Tobie Blanchard has the story. (Runtime: 1 minute, 30 seconds) Federal dollars help fund agricultural research in Louisiana [Image: Federal Funding] (TV News 08/11/08) Louisiana farmers and livestock producers and the state’s fishing industry all benefit from LSU AgCenter research. LSU AgCenter officials met with a U.S. Representative to show how federal funding helps the AgCenter provide research-based information to the people of Louisiana. (Runtime:1 minute, 30 seconds) New sugarcane varieties unveiled at sugarcane field day [Image: Sugarcane] (TV News 08/04/08) Sugarcane breeders are giving growers more options when it comes time to plant this fall. (Runtime: 1 minute, 30 seconds)