LSU AgCenter Evangeline & St. Landry Parish Crop Production School, January 4, 2012

Today I received this information from Keith A. Fontenot, County Agent, Evangeline Parish. He will be holding the Evangeline & St. Landry Crop Production School in January 4, 2012 in Ville Platte, LA. I am not on the program to speak at this meeting, but I will be there to distribute our annual rice entomology survey and to answer any questions you might have about pest management in your rice crop.

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LSU AgCenter rice winter meeting announcements for 2012

The rice winter meeting dates are now being announced. In this post I list all the dates I have received so far and over the next week I’ll send you more details on the specific programs. I will be speaking at all of these meetings – the topic will vary depending on the parish and the problems we observed last season. Please feel free to email me or your local county agent for more information on the meetings.

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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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More insects reports from Jeff Davis and Evangeline Parish – chinch bugs, thrips, aphids, and rice water weevil adults.

This week we have had calls about chinch bugs and thrips in rice. We also took stand count observations at the Evangeline Parish test site yesterday. This blog posting discusses chinch bugs, aphids, thrips and some natural enemies (fire ants and ladybugs).

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Planting time is approaching – met with cooperators in Evangeline Parish today

It’s almost that time of year again. Today Anna and I met with County Agent Keith Fontenot and Evangeline Parish farmer Kenneth LaHaye to discuss plans for the 2011 rice water weevil demonstration test. The field we will plant had some weedy passes, where a nozzle was accidentally turned off on the boom. This is a good example of why properly-timed burndown herbicides are so important.

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Weevil populations are high in some areas of Louisiana

We’ve been busy collecting rice water weevil cores samples all over Louisiana for the last couple of weeks. By the end of next week, we will have sampled most of our sites. The northern locations will be sampled later in the season. We are still gathering, entering, and analyzing data, but I wanted to give you a little preview.

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Chinch bugs in Evangeline Parish rice

Mr. BD Fontenot reported a chinch bug injured field to us today. Rice that was happy and healthy last week, had suddenly started to die on one edge of the field. The damage is pretty severe, but quick action will probably save the rest of the field.

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The Evangeline Parish LSU AgCenter Cooperative Extension Service Annual Rice Field Clinic

This is a reminder about the rice field clinic to be held tomorrow morning. Reeton School road is located about 2 miles south of the caution light on Hwy 13 at the Mamou / Oberlin rd. intersection. At Reeton School rd. turn east, go to the 1st curve, (1 mile), and continue straight on the field rd. You should be able to see vehicles straight ahead of you on the field rd.

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Colaspis causing damage in Evangeline Parish

Today I met Dr. Dustin Harrel (Rice Agronomist, housed at the rice research station at Crowley) at his agronomy test plot location in Evangeline Parish. Dustin had called me last Friday because he was seeing stand reduction in his test plots and found that colaspis larvae were causing the damage.

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Morein Farm Colaspis Demo Update

Last Friday we took stand counts at the Morein Farm in Evangeline Parish. This site is located on Miller Lake Road in Ville Platte. It was selected because neighboring fields suffered a stand reduction due to colaspis larvae feeding on the seedling rice in the 2009 field season. These particular fields were planted into fields where soybeans were grown last season. There was not apparent visual difference between the treatments at this time. The untreated area has a little thinner stand. We did not observe any damage from colaspis.

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