The LSU agcenter through its experiment station focuses on and addresses research in the 4 main areas within the state of louisiana: family & community development to focus on issues affecting…

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Louisiana State University Agricultural Center $6.204 million on October 1, 2025, under the Payments to Agricultural Experiment Stations Under the Hatch Act (CFDA 10.203), a formula grant supporting agricultural research conducted through state experiment stations.

LSU Agricultural Center's Experiment Station addresses research across four focal areas within Louisiana: Family and Community Development, including disaster and pandemic preparedness, sustainable housing, and agritourism; Food Security and Systems, encompassing animal, aquaculture, and plant production sustainability, food safety, farm financing, and succession planning; Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability, focused on conservation of forests, wildlife, wetlands, water resources, waste management, and alternative biofuels; and Obesity, Health and Wellness, promoting nutrition education and physical activity with emphasis on knowledge, attitude, and behavior change.

The funding period runs through September 30, 2027. Place of performance is Louisiana. Under the Hatch Act statutory formula, funds must be fully expended in the fiscal year of appropriation, though up to 100 percent may carry forward for up to one year after appropriation without prior approval. At least 25 percent of Hatch funding nationwide supports multistate research projects addressing regional or national agricultural problems.

The LSU agcenter through its experiment station focuses on and addresses research in the 4 main areas within the state of louisiana: family & community development to focus on issues affecting individuals, families, community development; disaster, epidemic, and pandemic preparedness, mitigation, and recovery; risk awareness; sustainable housing; agro security; and agritourism with particular emphasis on knowledge, attitude and behavior change. Food security & systems to focus on increasing the sustainability and profitability of louisiana's animal, aquaculture, and plant systems and food availability, affordability, policy; food safety, to include seafood, raw produce, and processed commodity - safety, certification programs, farm financing, and succession planning issues. Natural resources & environmental sustainability to focus on conservation and preservation of natural resources, state's forestry industry, wildlife, wetland plants, water, waste management, landscapes, feedstocks, alternative biofuels, biomass processing and their effects on the environment. Obesity, health & wellness focuses on increased consumption of healthy foods - fruits and vegetables; increasing physical activity; complete physical; mental and social well-being; policy, system, and environmental change; and related precision nutrition/health/wellness issues to include epidemic and pandemic prevention. Louisiana has a very unique and diverse group of citizens, but research that is being administered in each focal area helps the agcenter to better serve the citizens of louisiana as well as collaborate with colleagues in varying other states to CO meet the needs of their respective state.