Rice water weevil demonstration program results – 2011

Rice water weevil (RWW) management demonstrations have been conducted for the past four field seasons. The purpose of these demonstrations is to evaluate currently recommended insecticides on commercial rice farms in Louisiana to control RWW. These trials are a joint effort between county agents, farmers, consultants, seed dealers and chemical distributors. In 2011, we compared three insecticide seed treatments (CruiserMaxx, Dermacor X-100 and NipsIt INSIDE) to an untreated check.

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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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Pyrethroid spray recommended at Vermilion Parish demo site

This morning I met with County Agent Stuart Gauthier, Rice producer Richard Hardee and Consultant Chuck Greene at the demonstration site in Vermilion Parish just outside of Gueydan.

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Acadia Parish Entomology Demonstration Sites

This morning I met County Agent Barrett Courville at the Acadia Parish Extension office. Barrett grabbed his rubber boots and we headed out to meet with Mr. Rustin Gilder at the Hoffpauir farm. The weather was perfect today – some fields we visited were firm enough to walk on. If the weather holds, a lot of rice will be planted in the next week. The first rice was water-planted in Jeff-Davis Parish last Friday.

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St. Landry and Evangeline Parish rice demonstration sites

Yesterday I visited with cooperators in Evangeline and St. Landry Parishes to discuss this years demonstration sites.

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Rice water weevil demonstration plans in Vermilion Parish

Today I drove to Kaplan, Louisiana (Vermilion Parish) to meet with cooperators for the rice water weevil demonstration. Stuart Gauthier (County Agent) and I met with Mr. Alden Horton and Mr. Richard Hardee. We finalized plans for the rice water weevil demonstration trial.

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