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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Stand counts at Hoffpauir Demo in Acadia

Yesterday Barrett Courville and I took stand counts at the Hoffpauir Demo location that is just southwest of Rayne, La (Acadia Parish). Boy, it was another beautiful day here in south Louisiana! The fields are coming along well. We took stand counts and plant height measurements in Dermacor X-100, Cruiser-Maxx and one untreated cut. We will be entering and analyzing the data soon. In the meantime, here are some pictures of the fields.

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TWILA news story about rww demonstration test.

Avery Davidson put together a very nice story about the rww demonstration test which aired on TWILA last week. Planting continues to progress at the demonstration sites.

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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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