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'''Regnal E. Wallace''', also known as '''Reg Wallace''' (November 5, 1934 &ndash; April 13, 2016), was an agricultural [[journalist]] who was the first "Voice of Louisiana Agriculture" as the founding [[[radio]] broadcaster]] of the Louisiana Agri-News Radio Network. He created and hosted the weekly half-hour television series, his Week in Louisiana Agriculture," which has aired since 1981 and is syndidated on RFD-TV, and the Louisiana Farm Bureau Radio Network, which continues to provide fifty daily radio reports to twenty-eight stations across the state.<ref name=amscl>{{cite web|url=http://www.amscl.org/news/regnal-wallace-voice-of-louisiana-agriculture-dies-at-81|title=Regnal Wallace: Voice of Louisiana Agriculture, Dies at 81|author=Carey Martin|publisher=amscl.org|date=April 14, 2014|accessdate=May 9, 2016}}</ref><ref name=hilburn/>  

'''Regnal E. Wallace''', also known as '''Reg Wallace''' (November 5, 1934 &ndash; April 13, 2016), an agricultural [[journalist]], was the first "Voice of Louisiana Agriculture" as the founding [[radio]] broadcaster of the Louisiana Agri-News Radio Network. He created and hosted the weekly half-hour [[television]] series, ''This Week in Louisiana Agriculture'' which has aired since 1981 and is syndidated on RFD-TV, and the Louisiana Farm Bureau Radio Network, which continues to provide fifty daily radio reports to twenty-eight stations across the state.<ref name=amscl>{{cite web|url=http://www.amscl.org/news/regnal-wallace-voice-of-louisiana-agriculture-dies-at-81|title=Regnal Wallace: Voice of Louisiana Agriculture, Dies at 81|author=Carey Martin|publisher=amscl.org|date=April 14, 2014|accessdate=May 9, 2016}}</ref><ref name=hilburn/>  

==Background==

==Background==

The older of three children of William Edward Wallace (1900-1988), a [[cotton]] farmer, and the former Willie Eugenia Ford (1907-1994), Regnal Wallace was born on a farm in Crowville near Winnsboro] in Franklin Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]]. His brother, Ford "Buddy" Wallace (1942-2011), was also a farmer based in Winnsboro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42224174|title=William Edward Wallace|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 9, 2016}}</ref> After two years in the 1950s in the [[United States Army]], he graduated from the [[Baptist]]-affiliated Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]]. From 1962 to 1969, he was a sportscaster for KALB-TV, the [[NBC]] affiliate in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana.<ref name=hilburn/>

The older of three children of William Edward Wallace (1900-1988), a [[cotton]] farmer, and the former Willie Eugenia Ford (1907-1994), Regnal Wallace was born on a farm in Crowville near Winnsboro in Franklin Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]]. His brother, Ford "Buddy" Wallace (1942-2011), was also a farmer based in Winnsboro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42224174|title=William Edward Wallace|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 9, 2016}}</ref> After two years in the 1950s in the [[United States Army]], he graduated from the [[Baptist]]-affiliated Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]]. From 1962 to 1969, he was a sportscaster for KALB-TV, the [[NBC]] affiliate in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana.<ref name=hilburn/>

==Farm reporter==

==Farm reporter==