Acadia Parish rice and soybean producers meeting – Jan 5, 2012

The Acadia Parish rice and soybean producers meeting will be held at the LSU AgCenter Acadia Parish office at 157 Cherokee Drive, Crowley, LA 70526 on January 5, 2012. The program for the meeting follows. For more information please contact County Agent Barrett Courville: bcourville@agcenter.lsu.edu

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Comments from the South Farm Tour stop at the Simon RWW test site in Acadia Parish

We had an excellent crowd at the final stop of the LSU AgCenter south farm tour in Crowley, La this morning. For those of you that could not attend, here is what was discussed.

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Acadia Parish rice and soybean field day set for June 15

An Acadia Parish field day covering research in rice and soybean production has been scheduled for June 15 at the South Farm of the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station south of Crowley.

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LSU AgCenter rice summer meeting schedule for 2011

The summer rice field meeting season will kick off in Louisiana next week. Below is a list of the meetings and tentative agendas (if they are available). I hope to see you at some of the meetings. Please contact your local County Agent to confirm times, locations and speakers for meetings.

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Rice stand observations at Acadia Parish RWW demo site

Today Anna and I met with County Agent Barrett Courville and Crop consultant Rustin Gilder at the Acadia Parish demo site which is farmed by Glen and Wes Simon. We were pleased to find a healthy, rigorous stand of rice. Much of the field is already at tillering stage just two weeks after seedling emergence! This location was planted with XL745 at #25 seeding rate.

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Planting at Acadia Parish rww demo test site.

On March 16, 2011 we planted the Acadia parish demo test site. This blog posting includes a description of the treatments, field maps and plans for gathering data this season.

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Making demo test plans in St. Landry, Acadia and Calcasieu Parish

The last couple of days we have traveled the state to meet with cooperators for the rice water weevil demonstration tests. We met with cooperators in Acadia, Calcasieu and St. Landry Parishes.

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Upcoming Rice Field Days in July, 2010

A variety of field days are coming up in July. We hope to see you at one coming to your area.

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Rice Stink Bugs causing trouble – plus some grasshopper damage

Guest post from Acadia Parish County Agent Barrett Courville. This week with the early rice starting to head we are seeing a large population of rice stink bugs. In the verification field (with Dr. Saichuk) we were catching almost 1 stink bug per sweep. Very high numbers are being reported throughout the parishes.

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South Farm Tour – results from rice water weevil demo location 1.

We met at the Hoffpauir farm to discuss the results of the rice water weevil demonstration. The purpose of this demonstration is to evaluate the use of some currently available insecticides to control rice water weevils in rice fields. This location has a very nice layout with multiple cuts of the seed treatments (CruiserMaxx and Dermacor X-100) and also two pyrethroid treated cuts. These treatments were compared to an untreated cut.

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