AgCenter heirs’ property education initiative strives to help rural communities

Participants, including Ville Platte Mayor Ryan LeDay Williams (center), listen to a presentation during a recent heirs’ property training event in Ville Platte. (Photo provided by the Southern University Ag Center)

By: OLIVIA MCCLURE LSU AgCenter BATON ROUGE — When Leah Carter visits rural towns across Louisiana in her role as the LSU AgCenter’s community and economic development specialist, she makes it a point to ask residents what issues they believe are holding their communities back. People respond with the same answers over and over: Blighted housing. Run-down downtowns. A lack of economic opp...

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