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The mother of a former LSU quarterback is seeing early success with her Mama Roos artisan candy at the Food Incubator

After making sweets for family and friends for year, Ruth Flynn launched Mama Roos...

Local students and international food scientists are getting hands-on training at the Food Incubator

Marvin Moncada, lead research and development scientist at the Food Incubator, says the food science...

Four years, 35 companies and 125 tons of product later, the LSU AgCenter Food Incubator aims for even more expansion

Food Incubator Director Gaye Sandoz tells visiting corporate chefs from around the country about...

Consumed by technology and ever-demanding careers, Americans are forfeiting more vacation days than ever before

Arron Pierre, a manager at A. Wilbert’s Sons, says he doesn't mind leaving vacation...

Rising applications in the industrial services sector have drone companies positioned for rapid ascent

LandBros Aerial’s Spencer Willis, left, and Danny Landry send up a drone for an...

LSU AgCenter scientists taking steps to bring biomass products to market

LSU AgCenter Vice Chancellor John Russin says researchers have identified a number of new...

Riegel: Sudden departure

After just 18 months at the helm of the LSU Foundation, Stephen Moret’s announcement...

How a new clear title program is helping flood victims get back in their homes

(Photo by The Associated Press) Nearly four months after the historic flood of 2016, thousands...

Entrepreneurs: Ricci Hull and Natacha Krzesaj

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte) POSITION Owners and operators COMPANY Baton Rouge Distilling WHAT THEY DO A microdistillery producing local craft...

Cook: Here’s something else besides the flood (or politics)

Here’s something I said a lot during my Thanksgiving holiday: “Let’s talk about something...
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