Episode 30 Danny Logan - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Danny Logan, a farmer from North Caddo Parish, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

0:34 1. Danny, you have lived in Gilliam, in North Caddo Parish, for most of your life where you have been a farmer, raising corn, soybeans and cotton.

 

Let’s start here today. When did farming first begin on your land?

 

3:14 2. For people like me that know very little about agriculture in our area, take me through some of the shifts and changes you have seen in terms of agriculture’s place and prominence in our community.

 

8:56 3. Talk to me about some of the commercial aspects of your farm. Who are your clients and how do you transport your product to them?

 

19:08 4. Your wife Karen and you both attended university at Southwestern at Memphis (now known as Rhodes) and since college you have been very active in giving back to this community and others.

 

For instance, I know that Karen and you were involved for many years installing clean water systems for people in Haiti impacted by poverty, poor government and storm damage.

 

Talk to me about this work in Haiti, how it came about and what all it entailed.

 

26:37 5. As you look around our community, what concerns you the most?

 

28:05 6. What makes you prideful of our community?