Louisiana farmers pass rice referendum

I received this press release from Barrett Courville today. I would like to express a personal thank you to Louisiana rice farmers for supporting the LSU AgCenter rice entomology research and extension programs through annual grants funded by the Louisiana rice research board. This support is critical to research advances and extending information to growers through demonstration programs, meetings and information delivery over the computer. Without your support we truly could not conduct programs to support the Louisiana rice industry.

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Louisiana Rice Industry Annual Meeting Set for Jan. 25

I received this meeting notice from County Agent Barrett Courville today. I hope you can come out to the meeting. I was recently selected to participate in the USA Rice Leadership Development Program. I’ll be attending the dinner in Crowley after I give a sugarcane presentation in Breaux Bridge.

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Help us select a topic for the rice pest management session at RTWG 2012

Dr. Mo Way (Texas A&M/AgriLife Entomologist) and I have been asked to give a 30 minute presentation/discussion on rice insect pest management at the Rice Technical Working Group (RTWG) meeting in Hot Springs, AR on Monday Feb 27 from 1-5pm (other topics will be covered by other researchers). Please respond to this poll to let us know which topic(s) are of most interest to you. Thanks!

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2011 in review – Thanks to everyone who follows the blog!

This post provides a link to the 2011 summary report about our blog. Interesting highlights: the #1 referring site was AgFax, followed by Facebook, lsuagcenter.com and twitter. Most of our visitors were from the United States with India and the Philippines not far behind. We will keep posting in 2012. Let me know if there are any topics related to rice pest management that you’d like to learn more about this year.

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LSU AgCenter pesticide education coordinator position announcement

Happy New Year! I hope your 2012 is off to a good start! Tomorrow we will kick off the winter meeting season with the first rice and soybean meeting in Welsh, Louisiana. In the meantime, please help me share this position vacancy announcement. If you are looking for a position of this type, I encourage you to apply. Send me an email if you have any questions. Please note that the position closes on January 6, 2012 or until a suitable candidate is identified.

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